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From: llucianf <llucianf@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: gitignore design
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 05:44:41 -0700 (PDT)
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im sure cvs doesnt require you to remove files from repo in order to ignore
them. i used cvs for years and its ingonre policy is simple and effective.
you just put the files/patterns into ignore file and things happen aka they
are ignored.
with this very intelligent git this simple thing is not so simple. of course
there are workarounds (like the template example you gave) but they are
clumsy.
im just trying to understand why git ignore mechanism cant just read the
.gitignore file and obey to those ignore rules without asking you to do
fancy voodoo operations such removing those files from repo.


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