From: david@lang.hm Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:54:57 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] Zit: the git-based single file content tracker Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:46 PM, wrote: >> On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: >>> >>> It seems that tags, hooks, branches and description can be done with. >> >> do you mean 'can be done away with'? > > Ahem. Yes. I've got a patch ready for zit that gets rid of them. > > (A smarter way would be to create a template, but I'm not smart.) > >>> info contains exclude which is rather essential, >> >> is it? by default everything in this file is commented out. And with you >> only adding files explicitly why would it ever need to excluded anything? > > Zit does > echo "*" > $GIT_DIR/info/exclude > and yes it sucks to use a whole block for a file that only contains > one character. Suggestions welcome. can this be configured in the config file? > The reason why we want the exclude is that when you do zit status > somefile you don't want every other file in the directory to come up > as 'not tracked'. good point. David Lang