On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 01:45:05PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > PS I hadn't realized that --exclude-per-directory had been marked as > > deprecated. I do agree with e750951e74 (ls-files: guide folks to > > --exclude-standard over other --exclude* options, 2023-01-13) in its > > goal of guiding people to the easiest option, but I don't know that > > there has been any discussion about removing the other ones. > > I do not think there is any value in _removing_ the perfectly well > working --exclude* options, even though I think --exclude-standard > should be what users and scriptors should be using if they want to > emulate what Git does internally. Yeah, mostly I was surprised that e750951e74 used as strong a word as "deprecated". -Peff
