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From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: git add -i fails to heed user's exclude settings
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:56:46 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buowsstmapt.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (raw)

Inside git add -i, option 4 "add untracked", it doesn't seem to consider
the user's personal ignore patterns, which is _really_ annoying.

E.g., I have:

   $ git config core.excludesfile
   /home/miles/.gitignore

   $ cat /home/miles/.gitignore
   [+,#]*
   *~

   $ git status
   # On branch master
   nothing to commit (working directory clean)

   $ git add -i
              staged     unstaged path

   *** Commands ***
     1: status       2: update       3: revert       4: add untracked
     5: patch        6: diff         7: quit         8: help
   What now> 4
     1: ,l
     2: ,l.~1~
     3: AUTHORS.~1~
     4: Makefile.am.~1~
     5: config.h.in~
     6: configure.ac.~1~
     ...tons of other random backup files etc...

This makes it very hard to find files that actually need to be added!

Thanks,

-Miles

-- 
o The existentialist, not having a pillow, goes everywhere with the book by
  Sullivan, _I am going to spit on your graves_.

             reply	other threads:[~2007-11-08  7:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-08  7:56 Miles Bader [this message]
2007-11-08  9:46 ` git add -i fails to heed user's exclude settings Andreas Ericsson
2007-11-08 10:17   ` Miles Bader

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