From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:44:27 GMT
Subject: Re: How to find out which gitignore blocks my git-add
Message-ID: <slrngor0hb.cq.sitaramc@sitaramc.homelinux.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090207064221.GA14856@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On 2009-02-07, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> A toy patch series follows; see 2/2 for a description of why it doesn't
> work like you might hope. I'm not too interested in trying to deal with
> the refactoring that would be required to do it right. But maybe
> somebody else is.

I was thinking it could simply be a separate utility in
contrib for starters, perhaps not even written in C.  I
don't mind volunteering to write one in shell+the usual
toolchain (and I'll test it on msysgit too, because I have
Windows users).  My C days are a bit behind me, sadly...