From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:01:03 GMT
Subject: Re: as promised, docs: git for the confused
Message-ID: <7vd5k1bf40.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vzmn5bmlk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

> The only Plumbing support is that ls-files takes --exclude-from=
> and --exclude-per-directory= options.  It is up to the Porcelain
> layer what names to use.
>
> We agreed upon a convention to use .gitignore as per-directory
> and .git/info/exclude (I think this came from existing practice
> by Cogito back then) as the tree-wide fallback, when these two
> flags were introduced to ls-files, for interoperability across
> Porcelains.

... and as Linus pointed out already, the barebone Porcelain-ish
that ship with git follows that convention as well.

Now those commands are not Porcelain, so please do not call them
with any bathroom fixture names ;-).