[RFC] per-user ignore file

[RFC] per-user ignore file

[Daniel Barkalow]

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?

	-Daniel
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Re: [RFC] per-user ignore file

[J. Bruce Fields]

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.

Re: [RFC] per-user ignore file

[Daniel Barkalow]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

> 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

Ah, I was just looking at too old versions of the documentation.

	-Daniel
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Re: [RFC] per-user ignore file

[Jan Hudec]

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On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 16:28:13 -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?

I believe the later. Though I also believe it would be useful.

An alternative to separate file would be to include it into .gitconfig
as multi-valued key. Something like:

[core]
ignore = *~
ignore = #*#
ignore = .#*
ignore = .*.sw[nop]

and so on. Could be reused in .git/config as replacement for
.git/info/exclude if desired.

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>

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