From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:31:37 GMT Subject: Re: first impressions to git Message-ID: <7vr7bm470m.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> In-Reply-To: Daniel Barkalow 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 ".git/remotes" is the current one; ".git/branches" is obsolete.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.