Re: [RFC] per-user ignore file

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Jul 30, 2007, 20:43 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707301638490.8054@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070730203605.GD2386@fieldses.org>

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

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> On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 04:28:13PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> > It would be nice to have a per-user ignore file, so that emacs users can 
> > ignore "*~", "#*#", and ".#*". Probably this should be in the form of 
> > having a config option for additional ignore file names, so that the user 
> > can decide where to put it. (E.g., ~/.gitignore would be an issue if the 
> > user is tracking their home directory with git and wants to ignore some 
> > files in the home directory repository but track similarly named files in 
> > some other repository). Are there any fundamental issues with this, or is 
> > it just that nobody's been sufficiently motivated to do it?
> 
> See 'man gitignore' or
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html#ignoring-files

Ah, I was just looking at too old versions of the documentation.

	-Daniel
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