Kevin Ballard <kevin@xxxxxx> writes: > Another possibility is using this new behavior for core.excludesfile and > possibly .git/info/exclude, but not for patterns in .gitignore > files. I suspect that that approach is totally unacceptable. These out-of-tree exclude pattern files do not have any semantic difference from the in-tree exclude pattern files (.gitignore); it makes no sense to make them syntactically different. More importantly it is much harder to diagnose if you break people's private configuration without introducing the same breakage to what's available to wider public guinea pigs. -- 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