Re: first impressions to git

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sep 18, 2005, 17:31 UTC
Message-ID: <7vr7bm470m.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0509181201220.23242@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> We need to fix the error for trying to add a directory, and we should 
> probably support it in "add".

Yup.

> Core git doesn't have a .git/info/excludes at all. (And, in general, 
> .gitignore makes more sense, I think, because you usually want this to be 
> version-controlled; but maybe there should be .git/info/excludes as a 
> default for new directories?)

We by default install info/excludes disabled in a new repository and 'git status' looks at it. What it _does_ not do is to use any exclude patterns by default; if info/excludes is empty (modulo '# comment' lines) it does not use .gitignore.

> ".git/remotes" is the current one; ".git/branches" is obsolete.

Perhaps deprecated but obsolete is too strong a word -- it still is supported.