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Re: gitignore vs. exclude vs assume-unchanged?

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Date
Apr 26, 2014, 12:26 UTC
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On 04/22/2014 06:54 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Interesting.  It will break immediately when the project starts
> wanting to distribute its "canonical" ignore list

If that happens, that's a problem caused by the project wanting to misuse .gitignore.

There are good practices and bad practices. Forcing a common .gitignore upon everyone with access to the source code is not a good practice.

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Zé
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  1. alex@bellandwhistle.netApr 16, 2014
  2. Junio C HamanoApr 16, 2014
  3. alex@bellandwhistle.netApr 16, 2014
  4. Jonathan NiederApr 16, 2014
  5. alex@bellandwhistle.netApr 18, 2014
  6. Andrew ArdillApr 22, 2014
  7. Junio C HamanoApr 22, 2014
  8. alex@bellandwhistle.netApr 25, 2014
  9. luc.linux@mailoo.orgApr 26, 2014
  10. ZéApr 26, 2014

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