From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:01:52 GMT
Subject: Re: Git: "No you can't handle my root!" (?)
Message-ID: <20091013050149.GA11317@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1255407433.15646.12.camel@localhost>

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 06:17:13AM +0200, Daniele Segato wrote:

> > This seems to work:
> > 
> >   $ cd ~
> >   $ git init
> >   $ echo '*' >.gitignore
> >   $ echo '!.*' >.gitignore
> > 
> > > Or better: provide a list of directory under $HOME I want to track 
> > 
> > Same thing, but make your ! pattern more specific.
> 
> thanks again!

You're welcome, though while reading the quoted text I noticed a typo in
my instructions. The second echo should obviously be _appending_ to
.gitignore:

  $ echo '!.*' >>.gitignore

Hopefully that was obvious, but I thought I would point it out for the
record.

-Peff