Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Or only selected "*.o" (vendor supplied binary blob) kept tracked >> while everything else is built from the source. >> ... > But it also does get used for "mostly we don't want this file, but > sometimes we do" use-case, so that's something we need to deal with in > practice. Exactly. "Mostly we don't want *.o as we prefer to build from the source, but we have only object files for some selected ones" is an often cited use case where it is the BCP to have *.o in .gitignore and use "add -f" to add the "selected" ones initially.
