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Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> We need to fix the error for trying to add a directory, and we should 
> probably support it in "add".

Yup.

> Core git doesn't have a .git/info/excludes at all. (And, in general, 
> .gitignore makes more sense, I think, because you usually want this to be 
> version-controlled; but maybe there should be .git/info/excludes as a 
> default for new directories?)

We by default install info/excludes disabled in a new repository
and 'git status' looks at it.  What it _does_ not do is to use
any exclude patterns by default; if info/excludes is empty
(modulo '# comment' lines) it does not use .gitignore.

> ".git/remotes" is the current one; ".git/branches" is obsolete.

Perhaps deprecated but obsolete is too strong a word -- it still
is supported.