Re: Overly aggressive .gitignore file?

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 4 Jul 2023 at 14:15, Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I don't understand why your completion on "git am" should rely on
> *tracked* files.

It doesn't.

Read that email again.

It fails on *untracked* files that are hidden from "git status" and
friends by our .gitignore pattern:

   *.mbx

added by commit 534066a983df (".gitignore: ignore *.cover and *.mbx")

So when I have those old stale mbx files around, I don't see them,
because "git status" will happily say

    nothing to commit, working tree clean

with no mention of those old turds.

Really. Try it.

> From a workflow perspective that makes no sense,
> as by definition, git am will consume only *untracked* files.

I don't think you actually read my email.

            Linus