Re: [RFC PATCH] Introduce "precious" file concept

On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 11:22:09PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:

This is going to totally hose automation.  My last job had files which
might move from tracked to untracked (a file that had become generated),
and long-running CI and build systems would need to be able to check out
one status and switch to the other.  Your proposed change will prevent
those systems from working, whereas they previously did.

Wouldn't those systems not use -f right now? And shouldn't Git have the
same semantic for -f to clobber everything in the proposed use case?
Like it does right now for untracked files which are not ignored. So to
be save going back and forth I would expect those systems to use -f
anyway. Have I missed something here?

Regards,
Eckhard