Re: [PATCH 2/2] give exclude mechanism a debug option

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 8, 2009, 09:52 UTC
Message-ID: <20090208095203.GA12614@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vmycxz28s.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 01:50:27AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Oh, then the output format would, just like "grep" given more than one
> file tells which file it found the match in, talk about which path the
> output entry talks about when given more than one path.
> 
> Something like:
> 
> 	$ git check-ignore foo/bar xyzzy~ hello.c
> 	foo/bar: foo/.gitignore:4: ??r
>         xyzzy~: .git/info/excludes:22: *~

Right, exactly. What I was trying to say in my original message was that my toy implementation _didn't_ do that, and it is a downside.

-Peff