From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 15:45:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document core.excludesfile for git-add
Message-ID: <200705171745.09307.johan@herland.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070517143542.GB15709@ginosko.local>

On Thursday 17 May 2007, Michael Hendricks wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:31:12PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Thanks, but wouldn't this belong to Documentation/config.txt
> > instead, I wonder?
> 
> It appears to my untrained eye that core.excludesfiles only works for
> git-add.  It seems to have no effect on git-status and the only code
> that mentions core.excludesfile is builtin-add.c

If so, we should probably fix that. The set of ignore files parsed by 
relevant git commands should be consistent. We don't want a situation 
where exclude patterns in a file are picked up by some git commands, but
not by others.

...Johan

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