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From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org>, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document core.excludesfile for git-add
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 17:45:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705171745.09307.johan@herland.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070517143542.GB15709@ginosko.local>

On Thursday 17 May 2007, Michael Hendricks wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:31:12PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Thanks, but wouldn't this belong to Documentation/config.txt
> > instead, I wonder?
> 
> It appears to my untrained eye that core.excludesfiles only works for
> git-add.  It seems to have no effect on git-status and the only code
> that mentions core.excludesfile is builtin-add.c

If so, we should probably fix that. The set of ignore files parsed by 
relevant git commands should be consistent. We don't want a situation 
where exclude patterns in a file are picked up by some git commands, but
not by others.

...Johan

-- 
Johan Herland, <johan@herland.net>
www.herland.net

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-17 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-17  5:08 [PATCH] Document core.excludesfile for git-add Michael Hendricks
2007-05-17  5:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-05-17 14:35   ` Michael Hendricks
2007-05-17 15:39     ` Petr Baudis
2007-05-17 15:45     ` Johan Herland [this message]

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