Re: the opposite of .gitignore, whitelist
Jeff King wrote 2018-10-26 5:36 (-0400):
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> I think what Junio meant is to ignore everything by default, like:
>
> echo '*' >.gitignore
>
> and then selectively use negative patterns (and being in .gitignore,
> that makes them positive "yes, include this") to add things back:
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> echo 'foo' >>.gitignore
>
> which ends up being roughly the same as your .gitonly concept.
To clarify, Peff meant to say echo '!foo' to whitelist. See git help ignore.
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Mischa