From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-wm1-f48.google.com (mail-wm1-f48.google.com [209.85.128.48]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 85A1F1AC44F for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:58:40 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=209.85.128.48 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1718888322; cv=none; b=D34sDKdOZ0cVsjNztBT9JcDdg+rbiiukd8bBYoNw0HL7mUYO+8tUz5bXMugL97hkI5lPH8eDHOMGRjrOYdHqLUdmM0zdZJuwLKfIE3NZCf91b9Pvxn0xklNhPqG6u6lUffg74q6Sie0AvUpYJgWret5pLT4y/Dby8NGRB4XpdZM= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1718888322; c=relaxed/simple; bh=QVmy/F1x7ToOmjii3tn8PboeI+hIDnjyR99ju+Z0GAw=; h=MIME-Version:From:Date:Message-ID:Subject:To:Content-Type; b=if2hKpfCVTW58sjUx/Tff1k+S+sX2i6BPvrbDEZ4VybU5R26nyBqrWXqdKhtZh5MSOpGqwVRhz1U+wVEm0MygPUV4aJhB47sKGPYFl0jocsZtdjMleNo/aTa4gLFmx6AJ2Fmri9nslRLIIdFO0YBniZP2ftQ5vx2adfTRPJp1Y0= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=gmail.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=gmail.com; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=gmail.com header.i=@gmail.com header.b=eb1MEErh; arc=none smtp.client-ip=209.85.128.48 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=gmail.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=gmail.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=gmail.com header.i=@gmail.com header.b="eb1MEErh" Received: by mail-wm1-f48.google.com with SMTP id 5b1f17b1804b1-4217c7eb6b4so8724315e9.2 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2024 05:58:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20230601; t=1718888319; x=1719493119; darn=vger.kernel.org; h=to:subject:message-id:date:from:mime-version:from:to:cc:subject :date:message-id:reply-to; bh=QVmy/F1x7ToOmjii3tn8PboeI+hIDnjyR99ju+Z0GAw=; b=eb1MEErhNbDUJwJXh8JWWk46ctX/MX7nzTuOZo2YeVFsioLBVLVe+hwkV+4z/VshIT FX5ygv11F3PLMOp62ORYy/9s7v1ydkfdbBuHS/KRV/QBUuXqBGfyYNfji3D0S2RM1mhA 7b/pMkMMn96UX5Z/WcvB0lWTxHgvbj/5TooYoqIXfbnO6l/CRFU16PGtqtfXVUVN0l+O qD5QPCtjTmRlB/oYAgmUY/yS0ZWOzFkuJOlHfDGlFHpeBCyMBsoVHaa9BL1uvPCWGmUc r6ycQHgssrDWhxTHlDLHbTVp0wN3JOqLr7t3hiCq5UVW7xSiYeFW5mU2oIDsmwTS+jI5 ASqQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20230601; t=1718888319; x=1719493119; h=to:subject:message-id:date:from:mime-version:x-gm-message-state :from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=QVmy/F1x7ToOmjii3tn8PboeI+hIDnjyR99ju+Z0GAw=; b=kc0z1wV+TxjB7fdCTsDdgX1J3TrRtmM9Vh5FZVMf6FrFcVe36ORMBZymR3IhCy8NG4 td9DtaL7SIMwdCvY73/lqfs3EEMO3gui489h4c6StnPi3WAJivefwrlysrIYOQwoRSk7 rYQBwey1Da4dZDQkW6fYosmL2aw/xexVTA+2zspyOljPSmHTXRr9cHYyypvjikbvyWBd iJky4eo6xCU1LlDfmbXCdc5g9T00PCiv1In5FWasDKRQpeIp91fOVo+O7eF1OtzN2QlK OS7gwf8oFu7URpWX76SywlfCZHEHXfcPnuPkvQLdnS3vu53gY4cmcGVtrSiYljtaZsrw MaCw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0Yw+p9VGeeQ76qt9ofkzcg8Omu9OVtdP3c6YZMotwEVsLTS9GXoM 7pXZLtS7dmQ64PlZIeYqIjO3q9imWFaao/IiBdNK3cm3gTNmQ4aY8wZUSkMjCW3C9HM5jAAA9/D YruxddKtXrnrmJHfOluPJ6toMiubPycRU X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IGtWfOjDLWm2cZic0b04VHalnCXxK9TsjxMgkG4j62iZUt+lGnB2O4UMBvlL77Aqt10DlIQfVcmXpt/sXVRvuQ= X-Received: by 2002:a05:600c:2106:b0:422:e7e8:588a with SMTP id 5b1f17b1804b1-424751763ddmr40588705e9.16.1718888318513; Thu, 20 Jun 2024 05:58:38 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Clement Sello Tsetsa Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 14:58:27 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Feature Request To: git@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Greetings; My name is Clement and I am a second year student at NWU university in South Africa studying towards a bachelor's degree in information technology, i just recently learned about Git and it is a fascinating piece of technology. This is my first time making a feature request for anything and please excuse me if it is not up to your standards in any way. Please read the below text as it is the feature request: When initializing a Git repository, allow specifying file types to track using the command git init . If no file type is specified, Git should track all file types by default. Additionally, automatically create the .gitignore file during initialization, and as new file types are created, add them to the ignore list. Later, when adding files to the staging environment, Git will already know which types to include or ignore using the git add command. I think the user should not have to create the .gitignore file in the future if this is implementable. Kind regards CS Tsetsa