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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Thurston via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] Adding git-ignore command, tests, and documentation.
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 09:35:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqmuhc1uw9.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.264.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (Thurston via GitGitGadget's message of "Tue, 16 Jul 2019 19:49:33 -0700 (PDT)")

"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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-17 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-17  2:49 [PATCH 0/1] Adding git-ignore command, tests, and documentation Thurston via GitGitGadget
2019-07-17  2:49 ` [PATCH 1/1] Adding git ignore command Thurston Stone via GitGitGadget
2019-07-17 16:35 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2019-07-18 20:21   ` [PATCH 0/1] Adding git-ignore command, tests, and documentation Jeff King

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