Re: ignoring non-submodule subrepositories

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> writes:

> I have a repository inside another, and for several reasons, I do
> not want to use git-submodule in this case. My issue is that
> git-status lists the subrepository as untracked.
>
> Of course, I could add it to .gitignore alright, but instead
> I wonder whether it would not make sense to ignore subdirectories
> themselves containing .git/ directories, not explicitly so as to not
> mess with git-submodule, but implicitly.
>
> Thoughts?

I've had a line "/Meta" in my .git/info/excludes ever since I
started to maintain the 'todo' branch (which is managed in an
independent repository situated there, and pushed into the
'todo' branch of git.git), and having to have that line never
bothered me.

While I do not think of a reason offhand not to ignore anything
that has .git/ and is not a subproject, other than that ignoring
might interfere your adding such a separate project as a
subproject.  I know "git add" would countermand the ignore list,
but not listing means it lets you forget.

Thinking about it more, such a separate project is not even
special.  We list untracked files to remind you that you might
want to add them.  Why should a separate project that is not
tracked by us (i.e. a potential superproject) be treated any
differently from other untracked things on the filesystem?

So, my thoughts are moderate "negative" at this point, but
others may have better arguments..