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Re: Specifying excludesfile in a portable way?

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Dec 24, 2009, 07:36 UTC
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On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:14:10PM -0800, Fyn Fynn wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > Not in v1.6.4, but you can use "~/.gitexcludes" in v1.6.6 (which was
> > just released today).
> 
> That's great to hear!  But since it can take some time to update git
> on all machines, is there an alternative for now, e.g. a way to
> specify all those exclusions in .gitconfig itself?

No, I don't think there is another way to specify excludes in the config file directly.

-Peff
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