"Wesley J. Landaker" <wjl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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 Sure. OTOH, there are other interesting things a "ignore" command can do. bzr, for example, has a "bzr ignore" command that can either add stuff to your .bzrignore, or tell you which pattern cause which file to be ignored. That's handy sometimes. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- 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