After seeing -e option in git config (open config files in editor) http://git-scm.com/docs/git-config I decide it's time to propose to incorporate an alias really useful to me git ignore The repo is on https://github.com/albfan/git-ignore basically: git ignore <whatever> adds <whatever> to .git/info/exclude and git ignore -e starts an editor to tweak your excludes by default it operates con exclude file, but it can also work with .gitignore using -i option I find it invaluable for IDE project files, TODOs, test files... -- 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