Subject: Re: [RFC] Define "precious" attribute and support it in `git clean`

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 09:39:53 -0700

Sebastian Thiel <[email-masked]> writes:

> But if there is now a prefix, I feel that it might as well be chosen so that it
> is easier to remember and/or less likely to cause conflicts.

Another criteria is that it is not very often used in real
pathnames, of course, and '!' and '$' are good ones.

Come to think of it, we might be able to retrofit '!' without too
much damage.  Something like "!unignored" is now a deprecated but
still supported way to say "!!unignored", "!*precious" is new, and
"\!anything" is a pathname that begins with '!'.

> Yes, I think my paragraph above is exactly that but with examples to practice
> the new syntax-proposal.

OK.