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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: Git: "No you can't handle my root!" (?)
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:01:52 -0400
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On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 06:17:13AM +0200, Daniele Segato wrote:

> > This seems to work:
> > 
> >   $ cd ~
> >   $ git init
> >   $ echo '*' >.gitignore
> >   $ echo '!.*' >.gitignore
> > 
> > > Or better: provide a list of directory under $HOME I want to track 
> > 
> > Same thing, but make your ! pattern more specific.
> 
> thanks again!

You're welcome, though while reading the quoted text I noticed a typo in
my instructions. The second echo should obviously be _appending_ to
.gitignore:

  $ echo '!.*' >>.gitignore

Hopefully that was obvious, but I thought I would point it out for the
record.

-Peff