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Re: dotfile support

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date
Dec 7, 2005, 21:51 UTC
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<20051207215156.GK22159@pasky.or.cz>
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<20051207161130.GA10924@tumblerings.org>

Dear diary, on Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 05:11:30PM CET, I got a letter where Zack Brown <zbrown@tumblerings.org> said that...

> So my question is, why does cg-init ignore dotfiles within the directory when it
> first initializes the repository?

Precisely for Linus' reasons - by default, I believe your VCS shouldn't care about your hidden files, because they are hidden, and probably not content but kind of meta-content - the exception is .gitignore, but you can add more even on cg-init time. I have to admit that cg-init documentation wasn't sufficiently clear about this autoignoring stuff, I've tried to improve that now, and cg-init will warn you (post hoc) that it autoignored some files.

Thanks,
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Message 20 of 25 in “Storing permissions”
  1. Martin MaresApr 16, 2005
  2. Paul JacksonApr 16, 2005
  3. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2005
  4. Paul JacksonApr 17, 2005
  5. David A. WheelerApr 17, 2005
  6. Morten WelinderApr 17, 2005
  7. Paul JacksonApr 17, 2005
  8. Linus TorvaldsApr 17, 2005
  9. Paul JacksonApr 17, 2005
  10. Linus TorvaldsApr 17, 2005
  11. David A. WheelerApr 17, 2005
  12. Paul JacksonApr 17, 2005
  13. Daniel BarkalowApr 17, 2005
  14. Linus TorvaldsApr 17, 2005
  15. David A. WheelerApr 17, 2005
  16. Symlinks [was Re: Storing permissions]Morten Welinder, Apr 17, 2005
  17. Zack BrownDec 7, 2005
  18. Andreas EricssonDec 7, 2005
  19. Zack BrownDec 7, 2005
  20. Petr BaudisDec 7, 2005
  21. Johannes SchindelinDec 7, 2005
  22. Junio C HamanoDec 7, 2005
  23. Zack BrownDec 7, 2005
  24. Junio C HamanoDec 7, 2005
  25. H. Peter AnvinDec 8, 2005

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