On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 03:56:38PM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote: > When pulling from a repository that tracks a file listed in > `.gitignore` that would overwrite a local file, this is not reported. > > For example, in the attached repositories, when doing `git pull tst1` > in `tst2`, it is (correctly) reported that `ignored.not` would be > overwritten, while `ignored.txt` is not reported. This is behaving as intended. Ignored files are not considered "precious". You can find more discussion by searching for that term in the list archive. There is no concept of "ignored but precious" in Git. However, here's an old patch series that tries to move in that direction (using an attribute): https://lore.kernel.org/git/20190216114938.18843-1-pclouds@xxxxxxxxx/ AFAIK nobody is actively working on it right now. -Peff
