Hi, On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:16:59AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I'd suggest dropping everything after ';'. I think the part after ';' is the main benefit of this patch, actually. Without suggesting an alternative, the users are left puzzled "so how do I do that?" > - If you want to keep local changes without ever checking in, you can do > so by making partial commits. Yes, that's a rather obvious solution but the user probably wants something nicer than that if he starts looking already. > - You could mark these paths "assume unchanged". I really think this is worth mentioning in the gitignore manpage; it is not _directly_ on-topic, but there is no other obvious place where to teach users about it and all the interested people will check the gitignore manpage first. Perhaps a small section at the end might be acceptable? ;-) -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone. -- A. Pierce -- 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
