On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 16:28:13 -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > It would be nice to have a per-user ignore file, so that emacs users can > ignore "*~", "#*#", and ".#*". Probably this should be in the form of > having a config option for additional ignore file names, so that the user > can decide where to put it. (E.g., ~/.gitignore would be an issue if the > user is tracking their home directory with git and wants to ignore some > files in the home directory repository but track similarly named files in > some other repository). Are there any fundamental issues with this, or is > it just that nobody's been sufficiently motivated to do it? I believe the later. Though I also believe it would be useful. An alternative to separate file would be to include it into .gitconfig as multi-valued key. Something like: [core] ignore = *~ ignore = #*# ignore = .#* ignore = .*.sw[nop] and so on. Could be reused in .git/config as replacement for .git/info/exclude if desired. -- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@xxxxxx>
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