Re: git-clean won't read global ignore

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 15, 2007, 17:27 UTC
Message-ID: <7v7ikj5shd.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpqbq9vlt3k.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:

> At last, I'll be able to write
>
> $ git ls-files -o --exclude-standard >> .gitignore
> $ $EDITOR .gitignore

I think this is a good cookbook material to put somewhere in the docs.

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