From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: why does "man git-clean" not mention files ignored by core.excludesFile?
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 11:50:01 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq603gz9nq.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1805211221180.18665@localhost.localdomain> (Robert P. J. Day's message of "Mon, 21 May 2018 12:24:43 -0400 (EDT)")
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> writes:
> why is there no mention of files ignored via a user's
> core.excludesFile configuration?
IIUC, core.excludesFile is a much much later invention made long
after everybody lost interest in updating "git clean", let alone its
documentation. The support for the configuration variable was added
to the internal API used to access exclude mechanism, so "clean",
together with other users of the same API, got it for free when it
was added, and nobody bothered to update the documentation of
"clean".
In other words, a short answer is because you haven't made it to
mention it ;-).
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2018-05-21 16:24 why does "man git-clean" not mention files ignored by core.excludesFile? Robert P. J. Day
2018-05-22 2:50 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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