From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2015 00:53:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clean: new option --exclude-from
Message-ID: <20151202005338.GD28197@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1448549065-16337-1-git-send-email-rouzier@gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 09:44:25AM -0500, James wrote:

> From: James Rouzier <rouzier@gmail.com>
> 
> Specify a file to read for exclude patterns.
> ---

Lots of commands care about excludes (e.g., "add", "status").

Should this perhaps be an option to the main "git" to append to the set
of excludes?

You can kind-of do this already with:

  git -c core.excludesfile=/path/to/whatever clean ...

but of course you might be using core.excludesfile already. I wonder if
that config option should take multiple values and respect all of them,
rather than last-one-wins.

-Peff