Hi, On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > On Wednesday 14 October 2009 16:35:23 Ralf Thielow wrote: > > why does git don't have an "ignore" command, to ignore some files or > > directories all the time. > [...] > > I read on some pages by a google search that you can create > > a ".gitignore" directory or something like that. But you had to do > > this manually. > > > > why there is no "ignore" command on git? > > You could always make your own git-ignore script, e.g.: > > #!/bin/sh > echo "$@" >> .gitignore Probably it needs to be a little more sophisticated, because of Postel's law. #!/bin/sh git rev-parse > /dev/null || exit for f do case "$f" in *'[*?]'*) # patterns probably are meant to be recursive echo "$f" ;; *) echo /"$f" ;; esac >> .gitignore done git add .gitignore Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html