From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 16:35:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Adding git-ignore command, tests, and documentation.
Message-ID: <xmqqmuhc1uw9.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <pull.264.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Thurston via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> Instead of managing paths and relative paths such as echo
> "path/to/the/file.txt" >../../../../../../.gitignore git ignore
> path/to/the/file.txt No matter what directory that is in, the correct
> relative path will be added to the gitignore.

Hmph, do you mean you type something like this?

	$ cd path/to/the
	... work in that deep directory ...
	... realize that file.txt in that directory needs ignoring ...
	$ echo path/to/the/file.txt >../../../../../../.gitignore

Wouldn't this simpler to type and less error prone, as you do not
have to count ../?

	$ cd path/to/the
	... work in that deep directory ...
	... realize that file.txt in that directory needs ignoring ...
	$ echo file.txt >.gitignore