Tor Arne Vestbø wrote: > Ferry Huberts (Pelagic) wrote: >> Tor Arne Vestbø wrote: >>> In my opinion, EGit should default to using Eclipse's built in ignores, >>> but then detect the presence of a global core.excludesfile, in which >>> case it would notify the user ("I see you have a core.excludesfile") and >>> let the user switch to using that one instead. > > [snip] > > First of all, I do appreciate you working on the ignore feature :) > >> I do not agree with your propasal however. >> We then would have different behaviour between how 'git' behaves within >> Eclipse (by means of the plugin) and how 'git' behaves within the >> command line. That alone can cause much more confusion. > > I see what you mean, and I agree that in general the command line git > porcelain and the Eclipse git porcelain should work in similar ways. > > But, with that said, I think of EGit as a standalone Eclipse-plugin > implementation of the git porcelain -- not just a wrapper around the > command line porcelain. > > To me that means that EGit should focus just as much on integrating with > Eclipse properly as it does on keeping command line porcelain > interoperability. > > The core.excludesfile is one such case, and I think my proposal is a > good compromise. > how about we all (especially me) think a bit better on this and solve it later when I've completed the rest? That allows me to focus for now. I think we can easily synchronise between the eclipse global ignores and the core.excludesfile when we (really) want to. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html