From: Mischa POSLAWSKY <git@shiar.nl>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 11:31:51 GMT
Subject: Re: the opposite of .gitignore, whitelist
Message-ID: <20181026113151.dgjta7tlcjgnttcx@shiar.net>
In-Reply-To: <20181026093644.GA20876@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote 2018-10-26 5:36 (-0400):
> 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:
> 
>   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