.gitignore is toothless

myhosts
blacklist
whitelist
readmeData.json
hosts
hosts-*

are in repo, what means that .gitignore has no effect and is merely confusing - modifications to this files are still displayed by git

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/7072230/4130619 and https://stackoverflow.com/a/40272289/4130619 for some potential options

see https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/commits/master/.gitignore

As workaround everybody may run git update-index --skip-worktree readmeData.json etc.

[forthrin]

What I currently do to update the code and the sources, is:

$ git reset --hard
$ git pull --rebase
$ python3 updateHostsFile.py

1. Is this the best/recommended day-to-day practice, as long as things are the way that they are?

2. Wouldn’t it be better to either a) only distribute source changes through Git and remove the possibility for updating locally, or b) don’t distribute through Git and let people update locally?

It would be interesting to hear the reason for this Winnie-the-Pooh approach, with its disadvantages.

[funilrys]

@matkoniecz PR are welcome as you know!