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Re: [PATCH] clean: new option --exclude-from

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 2, 2015, 02:18 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 09:44:25AM -0500, James wrote:
>
>> From: James Rouzier <rouzier@gmail.com>
>> 
>> Specify a file to read for exclude patterns.
>> ---
>
> Lots of commands care about excludes (e.g., "add", "status").
>
> Should this perhaps be an option to the main "git" to append to the set
> of excludes?
>
> You can kind-of do this already with:
>
>   git -c core.excludesfile=/path/to/whatever clean ...
>
> but of course you might be using core.excludesfile already. I wonder if
> that config option should take multiple values and respect all of them,
> rather than last-one-wins.

It is likely that existing users are already using $HOME/.gitconfig that sets core.excludesfile=$HOME/.gitconfig as the personal fallback, that is overriden, not tweaked, by project specific settings of the same variable in .git/config, so that would not fly very well, I suspect.

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  1. clean: new option --exclude-fromJames, Nov 26, 2015
  2. Eric SunshineNov 30, 2015
  3. Jeff KingDec 2, 2015
  4. Junio C HamanoDec 2, 2015
  5. Jeff KingDec 2, 2015
  6. Junio C HamanoDec 2, 2015
  7. Jeff KingDec 2, 2015
  8. Junio C HamanoDec 2, 2015
  9. Jeff KingDec 2, 2015
  10. Junio C HamanoDec 6, 2015
  11. Jeff KingDec 7, 2015
  12. Eric SunshineDec 1, 2015
  13. 1/2 modernize t7300James, Dec 6, 2015
  14. 2/2 clean: new option --exclude-fromJames, Dec 6, 2015
  15. Jeff KingDec 7, 2015
  16. Junio C HamanoDec 7, 2015
  17. Eric SunshineDec 7, 2015
  18. Junio C HamanoDec 7, 2015
  19. Eric SunshineDec 7, 2015
  20. Junio C HamanoDec 7, 2015
  21. Eric SunshineDec 7, 2015

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