From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:17:09 GMT
Subject: Re: Quick question
Message-ID: <20060213201709.GB5935@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <43F0CF3B.6040807@gorzow.mm.pl>

Radoslaw Szkodzinski, Mon, Feb 13, 2006 19:26:03 +0100:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > Well, since you're telling it to only show excluded files, it will also 
> > only show excluded directories.
> > 
> > Which is admittedly insane. You don't want to exclude directories. Or 
> > maybe you do, but then we should add the "/" to the end before we do the 
> > exclusion.
> > 
> > This patch (untested) will never exclude directories. Which may or may not 
> > be the right thing. 

I actually quiet like it how it is.

> > Junio? Others? Comments?
> > 
> 
> For me it seems to do the right thing, although I have no need to exclude directories.
> If I really needed to, I'd say something like:
> 
> /excluded_dir/*
> 
> in .git/info/exclude, and it would show the files as being excluded.
> 

What's wrong with .gitignore in the excluded_dir containing everything
you don't want to see, or even just "*"?