Subject: Re: Files excluded but not ignored

From: Ben Aveling <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 10:54:58 +1100

On 31/01/2013 3:17 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jason Wenger <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Trying to start up discussion of whether there would be merit to a "half-
>> ignored" state -- Files which are excluded from tracking, but which still
>> show in git status, and which are removed by git clean.
> I see no merit for "ignored and never to be tracked, but are still
> shown loudly in the untracked list" myself.  Use cases for "ignored
> and never to be tracked, but not expendable" class were mentioned
> often in the past, though.

A new state seems over the top.

Jason, would adding a parameter to "git status" telling it to ignore all 
.gitignores give you what you need?

Regards, Ben