On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Speaking of .gitignore, I recall that there was a hanging discussion > on allowing a pattern to name the directory that the .gitignore file > appears in, which I do not think we currently support. With such a > feature, instead of listing "/junk" in the .gitignore file at the > top-level to say that everything inside the "junk" directory is > ignored by default, we could instead say "<this>" at the beginning > of the .gitignore file in the "junk" directory. Shouldn't "/" alone in junk/.gitignore express that? It does not work, but I think it's a natural interpretation of the syntax. > I think "* <attr>" > in the .gitattributes file in a directory causes "git check-attr ." > in that directory to report the <attr>, and we may want to have some > way to allow "git check-ignore ." to be affected by the .gitignore > file in the same directory in a similar way, but I do not have a > very strong opinion. Do people have any comment on this? -- Duy -- 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