From: Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:20:50 GMT
Subject: Re: why no "ignore" command on git
Message-ID: <200910142220.51725.wjl@icecavern.net>
In-Reply-To: <42efdea40910141535g23a50b87p9b6c4a0fde7e842e@mail.gmail.com>

On Wednesday 14 October 2009 16:35:23 Ralf Thielow wrote:
> why does git don't have an "ignore" command, to ignore some files or
> directories all the time.
[...]
> I read on some pages by a google search that you can create
> a ".gitignore" directory or something like that. But you had to do
> this manually.
>
> why there is no "ignore" command on git?

You could always make your own git-ignore script, e.g.:

#!/bin/sh
echo "$@" >> .gitignore