From: Randal L. Schwartz Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:58:41 GMT Subject: Re: as promised, docs: git for the confused Message-ID: <861x0hxfn2.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> In-Reply-To: <7vd5k1bf40.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> >>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano writes: Junio> Junio C Hamano writes: >> 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. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!