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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clarified documentation of --exclude-per-directory.
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 22:11:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v3baftdp0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060925155821.GC26844@spearce.org> (Shawn Pearce's message of "Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:58:21 -0400")

Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> Tommi Virtanen noted on #git today that
>
>   git ls-files --exclude-per-directory
>
> doesn't appear to work as advertised by the documentation unless
> --others is also used.  According to the current source code this
> is the case as the --exclude-per-directory file isn't read unless
> we are iterating over the working directory, which only happens
> with --others.

I am puzzled by this problem description.

If we _were_ to read --exclude-per-directory file when we are
not doing --others, what better behaviour would we get out of
the command?

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-26  5:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-25 15:58 [PATCH] Clarified documentation of --exclude-per-directory Shawn Pearce
2006-09-26  5:11 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2006-09-26 21:41   ` Shawn Pearce

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