Re: multiple .gitignore and friends in same workdir possible?

From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Apr 23, 2010, 14:50 UTC
Message-ID: <4BD1B3AD.50407@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <7537.06050240925$1272033186@news.gmane.org>

Konrad Karl venit, vidit, dixit 23.04.2010 16:32:

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> Hi
> 
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 03:01:42PM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
>> Heya,
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 14:46, Konrad Karl <kk_konrad@gmx.at> wrote:
>>> Is this currently possible or am I missing something? It would ease
>>> my task a lot.
>>
>> I assume that each repo has it's own gitdir, in which case it has it's
>> own config file, so you could just use "git config core.excludesfile
>> .gitignore.one"?
> 
> yes I could (i confess I was not aware of this config var) but
> the fine manual says:
> 
>   In _addition_ to .gitignore (per-directory) and .git/info/exclude, 
>   git looks into this file for patterns of files which are not meant to be tracked.
> 
> 
> so if there was some way to _not_ consider the standard .gitignore &friends
> I would be happy to live with.

If you control the creation of the repos, why don't you simply leave the standard .gitignore empty and use the config as suggested by Sverre?

Michael