Dmitry Kakurin <dmitry.kakurin@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > So I want to be able to say to git: don't track this file, but don't delete it either (even with clean -x). > What do you think? Does it make sense? Can it be done right now? I've said that we would need .precious in addition to .ignore; no objection at all, except "even with clean -x" part which may be a controversial detail. Can it be done right now? Of course not. That is definitely a post 1.5.3 item. But the beauty of the distributednes of git is that _you_ can start working on it without disturbing anybody else nor worrying about the stabilization freeze period. Me, personally I would prefer to see people spending their time to find regressions in -rc and fixing them before the release, though... - 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