From: Konrad Karl Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:32:48 GMT Subject: Re: multiple .gitignore and friends in same workdir possible? Message-ID: <20100423143248.GA6930localhost> In-Reply-To: Hi On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 03:01:42PM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > Heya, > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 14:46, Konrad Karl wrote: > > Is this currently possible or am I missing something? It would ease > > my task a lot. > > I assume that each repo has it's own gitdir, in which case it has it's > own config file, so you could just use "git config core.excludesfile > .gitignore.one"? yes I could (i confess I was not aware of this config var) but the fine manual says: In _addition_ to .gitignore (per-directory) and .git/info/exclude, git looks into this file for patterns of files which are not meant to be tracked. so if there was some way to _not_ consider the standard .gitignore &friends I would be happy to live with. Greetings, Konrad > > -- > Cheers, > > Sverre Rabbelier