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Re: Git and cogito uses different exclude files

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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Sep 16, 2005, 10:44 UTC
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<20050916104430.GA25169@pasky.or.cz>
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Dear diary, on Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 10:34:19AM CEST, I got a letter where Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@gmail.com> told me that...

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> Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx> wrote:
> > 'git status' and 'cg-status'/'stg status' uses different locations for
> > the exclude files. git expects .git/info/exclude and cogito and stgit
> > expects .git/exclude. This is easily solved by a symlink but it could be
> > nice if common files have a single correct location. :)
> 
> The latest StGIT snapshot uses .git/info/exclude. Probably next week I
> will make a new StGIT release.

So does Cogito now. ;-) It still looks at .git/exclude as well and gives warning if it exists.

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  1. Pierre OssmanSep 16, 2005
  2. Catalin MarinasSep 16, 2005
  3. Petr BaudisSep 16, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoSep 16, 2005
  5. Petr BaudisSep 17, 2005
  6. Sam RavnborgSep 17, 2005

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