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

From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: Apr 23, 2010, 15:51 UTC
Message-ID: <4BD1C1F6.9070908@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <16960.9152632349$1272035032@news.gmane.org>

Konrad Karl venit, vidit, dixit 23.04.2010 17:03:

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> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 04:50:21PM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote:
>> Konrad Karl venit, vidit, dixit 23.04.2010 16:32:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 03:01:42PM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
>>>> Heya,
>>>>
> [ ...... ]
>>> 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?
> 
> Because this information does not getting transfered with git clone.
> 
> People have the chance to forget to set this variable after cloning the
> source repo and they will.

...and the same is true for setting GIT_DIR appropriately for each repo
- people will commit to the wrong repo, which is even worse. That's why
it's a fragile approach to begin with. Is there no chance you could put
those libs in subdirs and use git modules?

Michael