On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> ... >>>> I think we should do this regardless precious being added or not. >>> >>> Because (see below)? >> >> Because it may potentially lose user's changes. Assume file "A" is >> tracked and also ignored. Users may make some changes in A, then move >> HEAD away without touching worktree, now HEAD does not see "A" as >> tracked any more. > > Huh? "A" is initially tracked and the user modifies it. Moving HEAD away > how? "git checkout" would refuse to check out a branch that has different > contents at "A", or is missing "A". So how can "now HEAD does not see 'A' > as tracked any more" happen? git reset <somewhere else> -- 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