From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 02:22:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Expanding Includes in .gitignore
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kasr6ubuOm01rLtdK7pfWqriZE1vioLyxAr2G2Hd1xGhg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <80919456-7563-2c16-ba23-ce4fcc2777de@pelly.co>

> 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?