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From: Wayne Scott <wsc9tt@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] extending git-ls-files --exclude.
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 11:14:37 -0500
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On 7/29/05, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> While I would in principle prefer to offer more freedom to shoot
> yourselves in the foot ;-), the pragmatic side of me says too
> much flexibility is just asking for trouble with not much
> additional gain.  

For an example of just how far you can go down the road to mind
numbing complexity try reading the rsync manpage about how to exclude
files.

-Wayne