# What happened to [PATCH] Support "core.excludesfile = ~/.gitignore" ?

1 messages from 2009-11-04 to 2009-11-04. Participants: Matthieu Moy.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/21479

## Matthieu Moy, 2009-11-04 08:56

Subject: What happened to [PATCH] Support "core.excludesfile = ~/.gitignore" ?
Message-ID: <vpqbpjiu0rj.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/vpqbpjiu0rj.fsf%40bauges.imag.fr

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Hi,

I found a patch to manage ~ in core.excludesfile here:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/93250

It seems the patch was abandonned by its author near here:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/93250/focus=94318

Was there any particular reason for dropping the patch other than lack
of time? If not, I'll try to resurect it.

(I have core.excludesfile = /home/moy/.gitignore hardcoded, and I have
to edit it each time I teach Git to a colleague, that would be so much
better to have the same value "~/.gitignore" for everybody ...)

Thanks,

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

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