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

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 2, 2015, 16:40 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 06:18:30PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Maybe. I would think the more common setup is:
>
>   1. Personal exclude files (e.g., your editor's backup files) come from
>      ~/.gitconfig.
>
>   2. Per-project personal excludes go directly into .git/info/exclude.
>
> But you're right that it would be a backwards-incompatible change.

No question about it, but at the same time I can sort of see how useful being able to read from more than one would be.

But for this particular one, I viewed the topic as adding a new option as a shorter way for passing multiple -e <pattern> options on the command line. When viewed that way, even if core.excludesfile were multi-valued, I wouldn't have imagined that people would try to use that mechanism for such a purpose--for one thing, the precedence order is wrong for that purpose, isn't it?

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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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