From: Wayne Scott <wsc9tt@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 16:14:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] extending git-ls-files --exclude.
Message-ID: <59a6e5830508010914714a1fd6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vd5p2hve1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On 7/29/05, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> While I would in principle prefer to offer more freedom to shoot
> yourselves in the foot ;-), the pragmatic side of me says too
> much flexibility is just asking for trouble with not much
> additional gain.  

For an example of just how far you can go down the road to mind
numbing complexity try reading the rsync manpage about how to exclude
files.

-Wayne