Re: [RFC] per-user ignore file

From: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
Date: Jul 30, 2007, 20:41 UTC
Message-ID: <20070730204143.GA8209@efreet.light.src>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707301612160.8054@iabervon.org>

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 16:28:13 -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:

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> It would be nice to have a per-user ignore file, so that emacs users can 
> ignore "*~", "#*#", and ".#*". Probably this should be in the form of 
> having a config option for additional ignore file names, so that the user 
> can decide where to put it. (E.g., ~/.gitignore would be an issue if the 
> user is tracking their home directory with git and wants to ignore some 
> files in the home directory repository but track similarly named files in 
> some other repository). Are there any fundamental issues with this, or is 
> it just that nobody's been sufficiently motivated to do it?

I believe the later. Though I also believe it would be useful.

An alternative to separate file would be to include it into .gitconfig as multi-valued key. Something like:

[core] ignore = *~ ignore = #*# ignore = .#* ignore = .*.sw[nop]

and so on. Could be reused in .git/config as replacement for .git/info/exclude if desired.

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>