On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:01 AM, Matthew Ciancio <matthew.ciancio16@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks for explaining that Andrew. I guess that was my intention: to have an "ignored file snapshot", but I can see now that it goes against Git's definitions and is not really needed. > I have played around with the idea of backing up files deleted by git-clean in the object database, maintained by a reflog (similar to git-stash). I did this to protect my code against my fat fingers, but perhaps this could also have been useful in your case? https://github.com/kusma/git/tree/work/clean-backup -- 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