Re: Ignored files being silently overwritten when switching branches

Duy Nguyen [off-list ref] writes:

Just fyi I also have some wip changes that add the forth "precious"
class in addition to tracked, untracked and ignored [1]. If someone
has time it could be another option to pick up.

It is much more sensible than gaining the ability to express
precious by trading away the ability to express expendable, I would
think.