From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] give exclude mechanism a debug option Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:42:45 -0800 Message-ID: <7vhc36zo96.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20090207064221.GA14856@coredump.intra.peff.net> <20090207064454.GB14906@coredump.intra.peff.net> <7vljsizog1.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Sitaram Chamarty , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Feb 07 08:44:22 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LVhrQ-00064i-Dw for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:44:20 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753463AbZBGHmx (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Feb 2009 02:42:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753359AbZBGHmw (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Feb 2009 02:42:52 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:62128 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753308AbZBGHmw (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Feb 2009 02:42:52 -0500 Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 834EB97220; Sat, 7 Feb 2009 02:42:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 124929721F; Sat, 7 Feb 2009 02:42:46 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <7vljsizog1.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:38:38 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: EC3EA9F8-F4EA-11DD-937E-8B21C92D7133-77302942!a-sasl-fastnet.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano writes: >> 1. Doing it as a debug environment variable is hack-ish. >> A nicer interface would be a .gitignore equivalent of >> "git check-attr". > > Correct. I suspect that ls-files would be the good match for it. Wasn't the exclude mechanism originally done for that command to begin with?