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

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 25, 2008, 09:10 UTC
Message-ID: <200810251110.25704.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <cb7bb73a0810250048q7ad8595bt565de05ec2ec37cb@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

Show 7 quoted lines

> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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?) [...]

[...]

> The user .zitignore file is probably the best approach: we can create
> it ourselves (usually), and even if Git doesn't expand the pathname
> itself, we can just use an absolute path. I'll go that way.

First, absolute path to ~/.zitignore is a bit fragile: what if layout of home directories for users change, for example because of increasing number of users some fan-out is required (/home/nick -> /home/2/nick)? Second, ~/.zitignore looks like something that user can change; if you install zit, it can install libexec/zitignore somewhere... or just use ./zit/excludes (with 'do not edit' comment perhaps...).

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland