From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:38:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Fwd: Add git ignore as builtin
Message-ID: <xmqq8uj9y0ck.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20141117205957.GB15880@peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:12:25AM +0000, Ryan Jacobs wrote:
>
>> Alberto Fanjul Alonso <albertofanjul <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> 
>> > git ignore <whatever> adds <whatever> to .git/info/exclude
>> 
>> This should be "git exclude" not "git ignore".
>> Difference between the two: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10066749/git-
>> excludes-vs-ignores
>
> I am not sure that the name difference is all that meaningful. Yes, we
> call the repo-wide file .git/info/exclude and the in-tree ones
> .gitignore, but I do not know if the distinction is more than historical
> accident.

It is merely a historical accident.