Re: Re: [PATCH] optionally disable overwriting of ignored files

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:33:21AM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:

Clemens Buchacher [off-list ref] writes:

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By default, checkout and fast-forward merge will overwrite ignored
files. Make this behavior configurable.

I'd use this option if it gets into git.git.

I didn't follow the discussions when the feature was added, and I was
basically not aware that Git could trash my ignored files this way.
I've always thought that Git took great care not to touch untracked
files, and I found this good ...

I agree here. I would like to have this as an option as well. And I
think adding a "ignored but precious" category does not make sense in
practise. My guess is that a user would only know _after_ git trashed
some precious file that it belongs into that category;) I have told my
users that git is very careful with their files and I would like to keep
this promise.

I was actually never annoyed by a failed checkout because of an
untracked file in the way. (A 'git clean -fx' always fixes this).

Thanks.

Heiko