From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 05:19:19 GMT
Subject: Re: as promised, docs: git for the confused
Message-ID: <7vzmn5bmlk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <86d5k1y7dp.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

> ...  I also don't see any direct support for .gitignore files
> in any of the plumbing.  Am I missing something there?

No, you are not missing anything.

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.