On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 16:28:13 -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
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> It would be nice to have a per-user ignore file, so that emacs users can=
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> ignore "*~", "#*#", and ".#*". Probably this should be in the form of=20
> having a config option for additional ignore file names, so that the user=
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> can decide where to put it. (E.g., ~/.gitignore would be an issue if the=
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> user is tracking their home directory with git and wants to ignore some=
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> files in the home directory repository but track similarly named files in=
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> some other repository). Are there any fundamental issues with this, or is=
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> 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 =3D *~
ignore =3D #*#
ignore =3D .#*
ignore =3D .*.sw[nop]

and so on. Could be reused in .git/config as replacement for
=2Egit/info/exclude if desired.

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>