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Ben Knoble" Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Patrick Steinhardt , Taylor Blau , Caleb White , Calvin Wan , Junio C Hamano , Elijah Newren , Andrew Berry , Jeff King , Derrick Stolee , Phillip Wood Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ignore: note info/exclude lives in GIT_COMMON_DIR, not GIT_DIR Message-ID: Mail-Followup-To: "brian m. carlson" , "D. Ben Knoble" , git@vger.kernel.org, Patrick Steinhardt , Taylor Blau , Caleb White , Calvin Wan , Junio C Hamano , Elijah Newren , Andrew Berry , Jeff King , Derrick Stolee , Phillip Wood References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="38PPvsGhl+cAtoNg" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.13 (2024-03-09) --38PPvsGhl+cAtoNg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2026-05-08 at 14:14:14, D. Ben Knoble wrote: > gitignore(5) says that the per-repository ignore file is > $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, but in a worktree that is not the case: >=20 > git rev-parse --git-path info/exclude > /path/to/main/worktree/.git/info/exclude > git rev-parse --git-common-dir > /path/to/main/worktree/.git >=20 > We actually use $GIT_COMMON_DIR/info/exclude. Adjust the documentation > to say so. This seems quite reasonable. I always appreciate documentation patches that clarify things or fix inaccuracies. --=20 brian m. carlson (they/them) Toronto, Ontario, CA --38PPvsGhl+cAtoNg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- wr0EABYKAG8Fgmn/P+AJEHwMSWKIh6KBRxQAAAAAAB4AIHNhbHRAbm90YXRpb25z LnNlcXVvaWEtcGdwLm9yZ4irBIsfDbC94yGUyqwR93IZpLy66sJxSlg75NFV0xuJ FiEECCzmip28ZfuD0cORfAxJYoiHooEAAGdXAPsGnTP4tVuHAUojofZE4ldW6b/O saDUdF6riI2IdAZT3gEAtuPOBTnirSihYnt5Jz7/7BVbo5f9ytFfd8UDfp+RWA8= =srcq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --38PPvsGhl+cAtoNg--