Re: why no "ignore" command on git

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Oct 15, 2009, 11:31 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqaazsrj0q.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <200910142220.51725.wjl@icecavern.net>

"Wesley J. Landaker" <wjl@icecavern.net> writes:

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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

Sure. OTOH, there are other interesting things a "ignore" command can do. bzr, for example, has a "bzr ignore" command that can either add stuff to your .bzrignore, or tell you which pattern cause which file to be ignored. That's handy sometimes.

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Matthieu Moy
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