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Re: Wrong gitignore precedence?

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YEYohei Endo <yoheie@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 23, 2015, 12:11 UTC
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On Wed, 22 Apr 2015 11:59:04 -0700 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> Swapping the order in the code this late in the game after 8 years
> may affect people who have come to rely on the current behaviour and
> never read the doc, which is somewhat worrying, though.

I agree. I think the change should be well announced before the fix is applied, like when the implicit value of push.default was changed.

Thanks.
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  遠藤 陽平 (Yohei Endo)
    yoheie@gmail.com
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  4. ignore: info/exclude should trump core.excludesfileJunio C Hamano, Apr 22, 2015

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