Re: as promised, docs: git for the confused

From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Dec 13, 2005, 13:58 UTC
Message-ID: <861x0hxfn2.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vd5k1bf40.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

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

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

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>> 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.

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

I see now that grepping "gitignore" shows git-add.sh and git-status.sh. gitignore is indeed doc'ed in git-add.txt, but not in git-status.txt. Must've snuck in recently. I'm trying to watch "git-whatchanged -p Documentation/*", but I miss things sometimes.

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