From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 23:28:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add exclude file support to cg-status
Message-ID: <7vfywx2t77.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050508015016.GL9495@pasky.ji.cz>

>>>>> "PB" == Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> writes:

PB> ... since I *don't* think you want to share this. The very
PB> fact it is in the .git/ directory implies here that these
PB> are your local exclude patterns which are likely
PB> temporary...

Is it really the case?  I recall that Linux kernel started
shipping with the standard dontdiff file for everybody's use
some time ago, after enough people wanted it included in the
upstream release.  Maybe you would want to read from both?

PB> The fact that we have no support for version-tracked exclude file can't
PB> stop me! ;-)

What darcs folks do is that they have a per-tree configuration
(kept in ./_darcs, which is similar to our ./.git) that says
which file is the exclude list, and by setting configuration
item to point at a file which _is_ version controlled they can
share the exclude file.