Re: [RFC] Zit: the git-based single file content tracker

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 24, 2008, 20:30 UTC
Message-ID: <200810242230.49238.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <cb7bb73a0810241313o341febccgbea1cd59b25b9cc4@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

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> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:54 PM,  <david@lang.hm> wrote:
>> On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>>> Zit does
>>>                echo "*" > $GIT_DIR/info/exclude
>>> and yes it sucks to use a whole block for a file that only contains
>>> one character. Suggestions welcome.
>>
>> can this be configured in the config file?
> 
> Yes, the file pointed at by the config key core.excludesfile is read
> too, so we could have it point at $GIT_DIR/zitexclude, which would
> allow us to spare a block. The most space saving would be achieved by
> a core.excludepattern or similar key, which would allow us to get rid
> of the exclude file altogether.

Well, with all zit repositories in '.zit/' directory (similar to RCS/) you could have point core.excludesfile to _common_ '.zit/excludes'; the pattern doesn't change from zit repository to zit repository?

You could even use per-user ~/.zitignore (I'm not sure if git expands '~' in paths; there was some patch for it, but was it accepted?) or system-wide /usr/lib/zitignore or /usr/libexec/zitignore file.

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Jakub Narebski
Poland