[PATCH v2] Let core.excludesfile default to ~/.gitexcludes.

[Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>]

Most users will set it to ~/.gitsomething. ~/.gitignore would conflict
with per-directory ignore file if ~/ is managed by Git, so ~/.gitexcludes
is a sane default.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
---
Change since v1 : just changed gitignore -> gitexcludes.

 Documentation/config.txt |    1 +
 dir.c                    |    9 ++++++++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 39d1226..13871a6 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -384,6 +384,7 @@ core.excludesfile::
 	of files which are not meant to be tracked.  "~/" is expanded
 	to the value of `$HOME` and "~user/" to the specified user's
 	home directory.  See linkgit:gitignore[5].
+	Default: ~/.gitexcludes.
 
 core.editor::
 	Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that lets you edit
diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
index d0999ba..cf3d8b4 100644
--- a/dir.c
+++ b/dir.c
@@ -914,9 +914,16 @@ void setup_standard_excludes(struct dir_struct *dir)
 
 	dir->exclude_per_dir = ".gitignore";
 	path = git_path("info/exclude");
+	if (!excludes_file) {
+		const char *home = getenv("HOME");
+		char *user_gitignore = malloc(strlen(home) + strlen("/.gitexcludes") + 1);
+		strcpy(user_gitignore, home);
+		strcat(user_gitignore, "/.gitexcludes");
+		excludes_file = user_gitignore;
+	}
 	if (!access(path, R_OK))
 		add_excludes_from_file(dir, path);
-	if (excludes_file && !access(excludes_file, R_OK))
+	if (!access(excludes_file, R_OK))
 		add_excludes_from_file(dir, excludes_file);
 }
 
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