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From: Jim Greenleaf <james.a.greenleaf@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git stash deletes/drops changes of
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John Keeping <john <at> keeping.me.uk> writes:

> I wonder if this would be better as a file rather than another option to
> git-update-index.  We already have .git/info/exclude so we could add
> .git/info/freeze or .git/info/local with the same syntax as the normal
> .gitignore file.

.git/info/freeze would be a good solution.
It would avoid the need to add a new class of files for git-status,
while keeping a simple, familiar record of all frozen files in a single location.