When manually resolving directory conflicts isn't a feature

Robert Collins robertc at robertcollins.net
Thu Apr 9 12:07:26 BST 2009


On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 20:39 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> 
> Maybe we should say ignored files are safe to delete and then create a
> new category 'precious' for things that are not to be added but also
> not to be deleted.  (iirc that's what the term meant in tla but it was
> not fully implemented.)

tla had 'junk' and 'precious'. It was fully implemented, just fugly to
teach people and with a awkward UI :).

I would be fine with doing this. Alternatively we could just put ignored
files that we need to delete in lost+found in the old directory
structure and tell the user.

-Rob
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