From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 11:53:59 GMT
Subject: Re: the opposite of .gitignore, whitelist
Message-ID: <20181026115358.GA26844@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20181026113151.dgjta7tlcjgnttcx@shiar.net>

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 01:31:51PM +0200, Mischa POSLAWSKY wrote:

> 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.

Oops, yes, thank you.

-Peff