From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: [RFC] per-user ignore file Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:36:05 -0400 Message-ID: <20070730203605.GD2386@fieldses.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel Barkalow X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 30 22:36:13 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IFbyO-00088E-7S for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:36:12 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966655AbXG3UgJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:36:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965304AbXG3UgI (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:36:08 -0400 Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:33792 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966655AbXG3UgH (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:36:07 -0400 Received: from bfields by fieldses.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IFbyH-00060U-Ap; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:36:05 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 04:28:13PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > It would be nice to have a per-user ignore file, so that emacs users can > ignore "*~", "#*#", and ".#*". Probably this should be in the form of > having a config option for additional ignore file names, so that the user > can decide where to put it. (E.g., ~/.gitignore would be an issue if the > user is tracking their home directory with git and wants to ignore some > files in the home directory repository but track similarly named files in > some other repository). Are there any fundamental issues with this, or is > it just that nobody's been sufficiently motivated to do it? See 'man gitignore' or http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html#ignoring-files --b.