Re: [PATCH] optionally disable overwriting of ignored files

Clemens Buchacher [off-list ref] writes:

I understand your point. But this is actually a great example. I
have a bunch of such tests, which are not in shape for upstream,
but I want to keep them around anyways (and run them). Do you
really think that an untracked test which was added to
.git/info/exclude should be considered trashable? If it were a
generated file, it would have been added to .gitignore.

I agree that in such a workflow to keep untracked tests around, they
should not be considered trashable. But more importantly, as I have
already said, adding your untracked tests to exclude is a wrong thing to
do.

Traditionally (think "git status" output without "-s") the way to remind
oneself that some day these paths need to be added when they are ready has
been to keep them untracked but _not_ ignored, so that they will be listed
in the output.

Quite contrary to what you earlier said in another message, adding
such a path that is not trashable does defeat the point of the "ignore"
mechanism.