On 16 Oct 2023, at 8:02, Sebastian Thiel wrote:

I don't know if this time will be different as I can only offer to implement
the syntax adjustment, whatever that might be (possibly after validating
the candidate against a corpus of repositories), along with the update
to `git clean` so it leaves precious files alone by default and a new flag
to also remove precious files.

I am happy to announce this feature can now be contributed in full by me once
you give it a go. This would mean that the entirety of `git` would become
aware of precious files over time.

To my mind, and probably out of ignorance, it seems that once the syntax is
decided on it's possible for the implementation to start. From there I could
use Elijah's analysis to know which parts of git to make aware of precious files
in addition to `git clean`.

I am definitely looking forward to hearing from you :).