From: Giuseppe Bilotta Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:48:24 GMT Subject: Re: [RFC] Zit: the git-based single file content tracker Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200810242230.49238.jnareb@gmail.com> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Jakub Narebski wrote: > Well, with all zit repositories in '.zit/' directory (similar to RCS/) > you could have point core.excludesfile to _common_ '.zit/excludes'; > the pattern doesn't change from zit repository to zit repository? > > You could even use per-user ~/.zitignore (I'm not sure if git expands > '~' in paths; there was some patch for it, but was it accepted?) or > system-wide /usr/lib/zitignore or /usr/libexec/zitignore file. System-wide means maximum space save, but it require system administration to install Zit, and considering that one of the things I love of Zit now is its being self contained, I would rather not depend on anything system-wide anyway. The user .zitignore file is probably the best approach: we can create it ourselves (usually), and even if Git doesn't expand the pathname itself, we can just use an absolute path. I'll go that way. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta