From: Robert Karszniewicz <avoidr@posteo.de>
To: "Tessa L. H. Lovelace" <tessa@assorted.tech>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using .gitignore symbolic links?
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 06:44:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YMxAteKYn0qf/YNj@BDZ> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1623983680.3494.0@smtp.dreamhost.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-18 6:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-18 2:34 Using .gitignore symbolic links? Tessa L. H. Lovelace
2021-06-18 6:44 ` Robert Karszniewicz [this message]
2021-06-18 11:15 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-06-18 12:55 ` Jeff King
2021-07-03 17:29 ` Tessa L.
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