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Add the concept of a “precious” file (ignored but not to be “cleaned” away) #1597

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LemmingAvalanche opened this issue Oct 10, 2023 · 2 comments

LemmingAvalanche commented Oct 10, 2023 •

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A precious file is a special kind of ignored file:

Untracked and ignored
Not deleted by commands like git clean -fdx

The idea is that some files are not tracked by the project but is useful to the user. Like the .idea directory (Intellij configuration).

From https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email protected]/T/#m8cc303540c72c3b8f80c8e21dec5fb0acd8253a0

See also (2011) https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email protected]/

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LemmingAvalanche commented Feb 11, 2024

Current email threads on this topic can be found by searching for precious-files.txt.

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dscho commented Feb 11, 2024

Current email thread is here: https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email protected]/#r

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