Re: Git and cogito uses different exclude files

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Sep 17, 2005, 05:50 UTC
Message-ID: <20050917055009.GB31324@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vfys5ote8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 06:43:27PM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> told me that...

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> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> 
> >> 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.
> 
> Late last night I could not find in the list archive the "list
> consensus" I used to justify what 'git-status' does in this log
> message:
> 
>     Message-ID: <7vfysw89do.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
>     From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
>     Subject: [PATCH] Teach git-status-script about git-ls-files --others
>     Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:18:59 -0700
> 
>     When there is non-empty $GIT_DIR/info/exclude file, use it along
>     with .gitignore per-directory exclude pattern files (which was
>     a convention agreed on the list while ago and is compatible with
>     Cogito) to generate a list of ignored files as well.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
> 
> I do remember checking Cogito and StGIT and making sure the use
> of .gitignore is consistent with you two, but I do not remember
> if we had consensus on info/exclude now.  It could be that I was
> just hallucinating back then and ended up forcing this change
> onto you and your users by mistake in this round.

I'm too tired to search now (just after a night bus trip from Denmark - actually, one of the bus drivers looked exactly like Linus, perhaps his twin works for a Czech bus company?), but I believe we actually did agree on using .git/info/exclude instead of .git/exclude in some old now-forgotten thread, or we are having the same hallucinations.

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