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Date:   Fri, 26 Oct 2018 07:53:59 -0400
From:   Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To:     Mischa POSLAWSKY <git@shiar.nl>
Cc:     Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>,
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Subject: Re: the opposite of .gitignore, whitelist
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 01:31:51PM +0200, Mischa POSLAWSKY wrote:

> Jeff King wrote 2018-10-26 5:36 (-0400):
> > I think what Junio meant is to ignore everything by default, like:
> > 
> >   echo '*' >.gitignore
> > 
> > and then selectively use negative patterns (and being in .gitignore,
> > that makes them positive "yes, include this") to add things back:
> > 
> >   echo 'foo' >>.gitignore
> > 
> > which ends up being roughly the same as your .gitonly concept.
> 
> To clarify, Peff meant to say echo '!foo' to whitelist. See git help ignore.

Oops, yes, thank you.

-Peff