From: Petr Baudis Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:51:56 GMT Subject: Re: dotfile support Message-ID: <20051207215156.GK22159@pasky.or.cz> In-Reply-To: <20051207161130.GA10924@tumblerings.org> Dear diary, on Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 05:11:30PM CET, I got a letter where Zack Brown 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, -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ VI has two modes: the one in which it beeps and the one in which it doesn't.