Re: [RFD] minor frustration in 'git add' pathname completion
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Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
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- Mar 24, 2016, 21:56 UTC
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On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Discuss.
> For example, I keep > a backup version of whats-cooking.txt in the working tree that I use > to manage the 'todo' branch as whats-cooking.txt+, and this is not > explicitly "ignored".
Completely side tracking thought: Have you considered ignoring whats-cooking.txt+ locally?
WC+ is a local thing to your repo, so you'd want to prefer $GIT_DIR/info/exclude over .gitignore.
You wish to ignore WC+ by git, so make it be ignored, instead of changing the git add rules. Your proposal feels like fixing the symptoms instead of the root cause.
I can see (3) being useful as it narrows down the list by a lot, I would imagine.
As I rarely use git add, but prefer git-gui, I have no experience though for git-add completion, but if you had one conflict after a bad merge you can just do git add <TAB> to get that file(?), so I guess people use it.
Stefan
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