From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: dotfile support Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 16:28:48 +0100 Message-ID: <4396FFB0.4040203@op5.se> References: <20050416230058.GA10983@ucw.cz> <118833cc05041618017fb32a2@mail.gmail.com> <20050416183023.0b27b3a4.pj@sgi.com> <42620092.9040402@dwheeler.com> <42628D1B.3000207@dwheeler.com> <20051207145646.GA9207@tumblerings.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Dec 07 16:31:31 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ek1Dx-00043F-IT for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2005 16:28:53 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751124AbVLGP2u (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2005 10:28:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751134AbVLGP2u (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2005 10:28:50 -0500 Received: from linux-server1.op5.se ([193.201.96.2]:29669 "EHLO smtp-gw1.op5.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751124AbVLGP2u (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Dec 2005 10:28:50 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.19] (1-2-9-7a.gkp.gbg.bostream.se [82.182.116.44]) by smtp-gw1.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 251376BCBE for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 16:28:49 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: git@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20051207145646.GA9207@tumblerings.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Zack Brown wrote: > Hi, > > What's the status of dotfile support? I can only find one thread that really > discusses the issue: > What sort of "dotfile support" are you hinting at? git being able to handle them, or git being able to ignore them? Both are implemented. The former by default and the latter through .gitignore. Files you want to version-control ofcourse has to be added with "git add", but that's not just dotfiles and it's really the only sane behaviour. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231