Re: Using .gitignore symbolic links?

From: Robert Karszniewicz <avoidr@posteo.de>
Date: Jun 18, 2021, 06:44 UTC
Message-ID: <YMxAteKYn0qf/YNj@BDZ>
In-Reply-To: <1623983680.3494.0@smtp.dreamhost.com>

On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 07:34:40PM -0700, Tessa L. H. Lovelace wrote:

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> Secondly, and more personally important to me, a system administrator:
> My repositories use symbolic links to allow a single .gitignore file to 
> define my folder structure, allowing me to avoid hardcoding the 
> repo-specific folder paths into my configs.
> 
> Is there a flag to disable this new behavior?
> 
> If not, this change means I need to update dozens of files, duplicates 
> all, or completely rewrite my .gitignore files to have shyteloads of 
> arbitrary file paths in them, which I'd rather not do.

Hmm, it sounds like `core.excludesFile` described in git-config(1) could do what you need:

  core.excludesFile
      Specifies the pathname to the file that contains patterns to
      describe paths that are not meant to be tracked, in addition to
      .gitignore (per-directory) and .git/info/exclude. Defaults to
      $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set
      or empty, $HOME/.config/git/ignore is used instead. See
      gitignore(5).

Regards, Robert Karszniewicz