[otp209]

> Can you really not think of a single situation

It doesn't even matter if they can think of one; assuming your own use cases for software are everyone's is proceeding from false premises and is the sort of thing that leads to (and necessitates) "hacky workarounds" and eventually the adoption of better software we should've had in the first place.

Assume nothing about user's use cases. A VCS should not be imposing arbitrary limitations on the files it's indexing. It's like the old-school filesystems we (surprise, surprise) deprecated.