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Re: Fwd: Add git ignore as builtin

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RJRyan Jacobs <ryan.mjacobs@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 17, 2014, 00:12 UTC
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Alberto Fanjul Alonso <albertofanjul <at> gmail.com> writes:
> git ignore <whatever> adds <whatever> to .git/info/exclude

This should be "git exclude" not "git ignore". Difference between the two: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10066749/git- excludes-vs-ignores

I'd second the notion of a "git ignore", however it would have to modify the `.gitignore` not `.git/info/exclude`.

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