Re: why no "ignore" command on git

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 15, 2009, 09:29 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0910151125240.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200910142220.51725.wjl@icecavern.net>

Hi,

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:

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> On Wednesday 14 October 2009 16:35:23 Ralf Thielow wrote:
> > why does git don't have an "ignore" command, to ignore some files or
> > directories all the time.
> [...]
> > I read on some pages by a google search that you can create
> > a ".gitignore" directory or something like that. But you had to do
> > this manually.
> >
> > why there is no "ignore" command on git?
> 
> You could always make your own git-ignore script, e.g.:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "$@" >> .gitignore

Probably it needs to be a little more sophisticated, because of Postel's law.

#!/bin/sh

git rev-parse > /dev/null || exit
for f
do
	case "$f" in
	*'[*?]'*)
		# patterns probably are meant to be recursive
		echo "$f"
		;;
	*)
		echo /"$f"
		;;
	esac >> .gitignore
done
git add .gitignore

Ciao, Dscho