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Re: Expanding Includes in .gitignore

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Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date
Oct 27, 2016, 02:22 UTC
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> The use case for this is where I did not write my own rules, but I want
> to keep them updated. https://github.com/github/gitignore is a damn good
> resource, but I want to pull it and include relevant bits project by
> project and/or system wide. I don't want to have to update many projects
> manually if that, or any other, repo changes.

.git/info/exclude could be a (sym)link to an up to date version of the gitignore repo as a hack?

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