From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:36:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Specifying excludesfile in a portable way?
Message-ID: <20091224073549.GA5893@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1a04eebf0912232314y5dcbdfa7w4adea2eb617e0992@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:14:10PM -0800, Fyn Fynn wrote:

> 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