Comment by RHSeeger
7 months ago
This. I have no urge to have git "clean" my project, because I'll lose a ton of files I have created locally. Rather, I want the project know what it creates when it builds and have the ability to clean/purge them. It's a never ending source of frustration for me that "gradlew clean" only cleans _some_ stuff, and there's no real "gradlew distclean".
Hmm, I wonder what's the best way™ to, er "locally backup" those files, in such a way that no git-clean invocation will remove them without promoting.
All I can think of are things like periodically copying them to another folder, or give them a different ownership needed for edit/delete, etc.
Unless there's some kind of .gitpreserve feature...
You can have locally ignores files in .git/info/exclude IIRC.
I know there are local-only git settings, but AFAIK ignore-status won't protect files from being removed/overwritten by all possible git commands, it just means they won't be accidentally staged/committed.