On Mon, 16 Nov, 2015 at 00:42:10 GMT, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Till Maas wrote: >> It also breaks git clean which is used to clean files. What is the >> reason that making .gitignore append-only would be useful btw? > > If I don't bother cleaning away the old tarballs, I don't want them to show > up as uncommitted files in git-cola (or command-line "git status", I suppose > – I always use git-cola), polluting my list of files to commit. You can set up a global .gitignore. The reasoning is that adding .*.sw* to every repo just because you use Vim is silly. It is, of course, overriden by any "don't exclude" lines in a repo-local .gitignore file. Here's some of my configuration: .config/git/config: [core] excludesfile = ~/.local/share/git/gitignore .local/share/git/gitignore: # Vim backup files .*.sw* .*.un~ # Object files *.o *.obj # Autotools *.lo *.la .libs/ .deps/ autom4te.cache/ .dirstamp # gettext *.gmo *.pot # Python files *.pyc *.pyo __pycache__/ # Tarballs and zip files *.rar *.tar.* *.tgz *.zip --Ben -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct