From: Duy Nguyen Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 06:20:55 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] .gitignore: Ignore editor backup and swap files Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20140116224334.GS18964@google.com> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:43 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Subject: gitignore doc: add global gitignore to synopsis > > The gitignore(5) manpage already documents $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore > but it is easy to forget that it exists. Add a reminder to the > synopsis. Yes! I knew about the xdg thing but was not aware about $xdg/git/ignore. No more updating .git/info/exclude on every newly cloned repo.. -- Duy