Sorry for the somewhat late reply, I just found time on the weekend to check out this suggestion by Johannes (http://marc.info/?l=git&m=118418927823760&w=2) also sprach Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> [2007.07.11.2126 +0200]: > Come to think of it, this is maybe what I would have done, but it > appears to me that this is the _ideal_ use case for worktree: > > In $HOME/gits: > > $ mkdir vim.git && cd vim.git > $ git --work-tree=$HOME init > $ cat >> info/exclude < EOF > * > !/.vimrc > EOF > > Then you could do all Git operations like push, fetch, pull, log in > $HOME/gits/vim.git, and all editing in $HOME. This actually seems to work really nicely, but I am somewhat displeased by the gitignore/exclude handling, since it's local. What I want to do is synchronise the vim configuration across many workstations with git, and I don't want to have to modify $GIT_DIR/info/exclude on each machine. So I am tempted to use .gitignore, but that lives in the worktree, and since the suggestion is to share worktrees between different git repos, I can only ever have one .gitignore file, which would have to list ignores for *all* repos in $HOME/gits, which breaks my head. Do you have any other idea on how to handle ignores? I guess one alternative is just to ignore git status output altogether, but that's not really nice. Would people consider honoring .gitignore-* in addition to just .gitignore? Or maybe even honouring .gitignore/*, if .gitignore is a directory, not a file? Cheers, -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck spamtraps: madduck.bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx "i like .net for the same reason i like gentoo. it keeps all the people with no clue from writing c code, which is much harder for me to identify and eliminate from my systems. in the same way that gentoo gives those people a place to be that isn't in debian" -- andrew suffield
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