Hi, On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Martin Waitz wrote: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 12:44:57AM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > > Dear diary, on Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 12:39:20AM CEST, I got a letter > > where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that... > > > But I would suggest you to be _extremely_ careful if you want to > > > try this. I do not have an example offhand, but I would not be > > > surprised at all if there is a valid use case where it is useful > > > to have a pattern that matches a tracked file in .gitignore > > > file. > > > > *.o and binary blobs of closed-source software. > > but if you want to switch from one branch which has the .o file > built from source to another branch which has the .o file tracked > in binary form, wouldn't you want to remove the generated file > in order to store the tracked one from the new branch? Not necessarily. Sometimes you have files in your working directory, which are not in your repository, you know? Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Sun Aug 20 22:49:25 2006
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