Re: User-wide ignore list

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 15, 2007, 11:37 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702151225130.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <vpqabzfsn1b.fsf@olympe.imag.fr>

Hi,

[Cc'ed Duy, as he raised the same concerns.]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> >
> >> Is there a way to have a per-user ignore list in git?
> >
> > It's not really per user, but how about doing it with templates?
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong (I didn't really find a documentation for 
> templates), but I believe this would only apply to newly created 
> project.

Yes. However, you can safely call "git init" in an _existing_ repo. It 
does not overwrite existing files.

> Then, it doesn't apply if I clone the project of someone using another 
> editor for example, nor to my old projects if I add something to the 
> list of things I want to ignore.

"git clone" implicitly calls "git init"; Therefore you get the templates, too. But you're right, if you already edited .git/info/exclude, this will not overwrite it.

Of course, you could fiddle with ~/.gitconfig, or even ~/.gitignore, but I suggest that you first think about a sane syntax.

Also note that this opens the door for shooting-in-the-foot; files you are certain you want ignored can show up in a cloned repo all to easy.

Ciao, Dscho