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Re: [PROPOSAL] .gitignore syntax modification

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 13, 2010, 16:51 UTC
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Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> writes:
> Another possibility is using this new behavior for core.excludesfile and
> possibly .git/info/exclude, but not for patterns in .gitignore
> files.

I suspect that that approach is totally unacceptable. These out-of-tree exclude pattern files do not have any semantic difference from the in-tree exclude pattern files (.gitignore); it makes no sense to make them syntactically different.

More importantly it is much harder to diagnose if you break people's private configuration without introducing the same breakage to what's available to wider public guinea pigs.

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  5. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 13, 2010
  6. Kevin BallardOct 13, 2010
  7. Jonathan NiederOct 13, 2010
  8. Kevin BallardOct 13, 2010
  9. Junio C HamanoOct 13, 2010
  10. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 13, 2010
  11. Kevin BallardOct 15, 2010
  12. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 15, 2010
  13. Kevin BallardOct 15, 2010

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