On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If this is a feature, we would like a patch to Documentation/gitignore.txt > as well, I think. Also I have a suspicion that this was an unintended > "regression"; do you have a bisection? It dated back to f8a9d42 (read-tree: further loosen "working file will be lost" check. - 2006-12-04) when you introduced --exclude-per-directory to read-tree, but not --exclude-from to explicitly add .git/info/exclude. "read tree --exclude-per-directory" is used in git-checkout.sh and the same logic is carried over to builtin-checkout.c until today. I guess it's time to add "read-tree --exclude-from". Not sure what to do with git-checkout though. We may add an option to checkout to skip either .git/info/exclude or .gitignore, or both. -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html