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From: Zé <jose.passes@gmx.com>
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Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: gitignore vs. exclude vs assume-unchanged?
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 13:26:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <535BA5E4.5050609@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqtx9l5jxn.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On 04/22/2014 06:54 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Interesting.  It will break immediately when the project starts
> wanting to distribute its "canonical" ignore list

If that happens, that's a problem caused by the project wanting to 
misuse .gitignore.

There are good practices and bad practices.  Forcing a common .gitignore 
upon everyone with access to the source code is not a good practice.

-- 
Zé

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-26 12:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-16 16:33 gitignore vs. exclude vs assume-unchanged? alex
2014-04-16 17:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-16 23:07   ` alex
2014-04-16 23:45     ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-04-18  0:36       ` alex
2014-04-22  0:40         ` Andrew Ardill
2014-04-22 17:54           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-04-25 23:09             ` alex
2014-04-26  7:52               ` luc.linux
2014-04-26 12:26             ` Zé [this message]

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