From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:36:30 GMT
Subject: Re: "exclude" and ".gitignore" for everyone
Message-ID: <vpqy6scc975.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <E6F58E6B-4ECF-4A55-9249-9A8BBFBDBC24@silverinsanity.com>

Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com> writes:

>  Generally, I'd suggest putting [...] your editor's garbage in
> exclude.

better: put them in a user-wide ignore file.

in ~/.gitconfig:

[core]
        excludesfile = /home/yourlogin/.gitignore

then put whatever you want in $HOME/.gitignore.

-- 
Matthieu