From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2015 02:18:30 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] clean: new option --exclude-from Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20151202005338.GD28197@sigill.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 09:44:25AM -0500, James wrote: > >> From: James Rouzier >> >> 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.