> The use case for this is where I did not write my own rules, but I want > to keep them updated. https://github.com/github/gitignore is a damn good > resource, but I want to pull it and include relevant bits project by > project and/or system wide. I don't want to have to update many projects > manually if that, or any other, repo changes. .git/info/exclude could be a (sym)link to an up to date version of the gitignore repo as a hack?