On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 07:34:40PM -0700, Tessa L. H. Lovelace wrote:
> Secondly, and more personally important to me, a system administrator:
> My repositories use symbolic links to allow a single .gitignore file to
> define my folder structure, allowing me to avoid hardcoding the
> repo-specific folder paths into my configs.
>
> Is there a flag to disable this new behavior?
>
> If not, this change means I need to update dozens of files, duplicates
> all, or completely rewrite my .gitignore files to have shyteloads of
> arbitrary file paths in them, which I'd rather not do.
Hmm, it sounds like `core.excludesFile` described in git-config(1) could
do what you need:
core.excludesFile
Specifies the pathname to the file that contains patterns to
describe paths that are not meant to be tracked, in addition to
.gitignore (per-directory) and .git/info/exclude. Defaults to
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set
or empty, $HOME/.config/git/ignore is used instead. See
gitignore(5).
Regards,
Robert Karszniewicz
