Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> writes: > What I'd add to your list is: > > * Some projects (I've seen this in the wild) add e.g. *.mp3 or whatever > else usually doesn't belong in the repo as a "soft ignore". This is > something we've never recommended, but have implicitly supported since > the only caveats are a) you need a one-off "git add -f" and then > they're tracked b) them being missing from "status" before being > tracked c) the issue under discussion here.
Or only selected "*.o" (vendor supplied binary blob) kept tracked while everything else is built from the source. I do not know who you are referring to "we" in your sentence, but as far as I am concerned, it has been and still is a BCP recommendation on this list to deal with a case like that.
