Re: why no "ignore" command on git

From: Scott Wiersdorf <scott@perlcode.org>
Date: Oct 14, 2009, 23:02 UTC
Message-ID: <20091014230217.GA87543@perlcode.org>
In-Reply-To: <42efdea40910141535g23a50b87p9b6c4a0fde7e842e@mail.gmail.com>

git does have a command to ignore files and directories: it's called 'emacs' (or 'vim' on some systems).

Seriously, the .gitignore file can contain a complex set of patterns to ignore, and you can have .gitignore files at lower directories in a hierarchy to override higher ones. This isn't something easily contained in a simple command.

Scott

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:35:23AM +0200, Ralf Thielow wrote:

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> Hello,
> 
> why does git don't have an "ignore" command, to ignore some files or
> directories all the time.
> In many project file structures you have IDE specified project files
> or directories which
> should not be tracked on git. All the time git says that you can add
> these files, this is not
> usable if you want to add many files with the "git add ." command.
> 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?
> 
> best regards
> 
> Ralf
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