Re: as promised, docs: git for the confused

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Dec 13, 2005, 05:29 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0512122124290.15597@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vzmn5bmlk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 
> The only Plumbing support is that ls-files takes --exclude-from=
> and --exclude-per-directory= options.  It is up to the Porcelain
> layer what names to use.

The only _core_ plumbing support is the git-ls-files option, but some of the git helper functions do use it. Notably, "git add" and "git status" both use those options, which in turn then indirectly means that when using "git commit" the commit message template won't list ignored files etc.

So the git "mini-porcelain" layer does in fact use .gitignore and friends.

		Linus