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Re: Specifying excludesfile in a portable way?

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Dec 24, 2009, 05:53 UTC
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On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 07:45:14PM -0800, Fyn Fynn wrote:
> Is there a way to specify that in a portable way?  I tried both
> ~/.gitexcludes and $HOME/.gitexcludes; neither worked on any platform.
> 
> git version on both platforms is 1.6.4

Not in v1.6.4, but you can use "~/.gitexcludes" in v1.6.6 (which was just released today).

-Peff
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