Re: why no "ignore" command on git

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Oct 15, 2009, 15:52 UTC
Message-ID: <20091015155220.GA12169@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <vpqaazsrj0q.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 01:31:01PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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> >> why there is no "ignore" command on git?
> >
> > You could always make your own git-ignore script, e.g.:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > echo "$@" >> .gitignore
> 
> Sure. OTOH, there are other interesting things a "ignore" command can
> do. bzr, for example, has a "bzr ignore" command that can either add
> stuff to your .bzrignore, or tell you which pattern cause which file
> to be ignored. That's handy sometimes.

I wrote a toy patch that did something like that a while ago:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/108671/focus=108842

I don't think there is any reason such a thing could not be included with git (if it did something more interesting than just echoing its arguments to .gitignore), but nobody has felt strongly enough about it yet to actually write something polished.

-Peff