From: Aaron Pelly <aaron@pelly.co>
To: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Git mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Expanding Includes in .gitignore
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 09:59:48 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <067f4a57-2382-07e3-6873-79af78b4a9a1@pelly.co> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+P7+xqmVM-bEc7sZcn+p3qhFUUJvC+rko7CYu+KgyTAeiOifw@mail.gmail.com>
On 28/10/16 08:48, Jacob Keller wrote:
> I would strongly prefer rc.d style directories either with a "if the
> .gitignore is a directory treat it like rc.d" or even "add support for
> .gitignore.d as well as .gitignore"
I think adding .gitignore.d shouldn't break existing systems, is
intuitive, and solves my issue.
Does git know when it is in a repo that is too new to comprehend?
My current thinking is that anywhere a .gitignore can go, so can a
.gitignore.d (named appropriately of course.) Any existing .gitignore
should take precedence to the result of parsing the directory.
I haven't looked at the implementation of precedence yet, but I'd be
surprised if the existing mechanism can't be employed.
> One thing to keep in mind would be that we should make sure we can
> handle the .gitignore being a submodule or a git repository, so that
> users could just do something like
>
> "git submodule add <repo> .gitignore and then track git ignore
> contents from a repository in a nice way.
>
> By this I mean that the reading of files in .gitignore directory
> should exclude reading .git or other hidden files in some documented
> manor so as to avoid problems when linking to a git directory for its
> contents.
Nice! I like this a lot.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-27 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-27 0:22 Expanding Includes in .gitignore Aaron Pelly
2016-10-27 2:22 ` Stefan Beller
2016-10-27 9:51 ` Aaron Pelly
2016-10-27 8:19 ` Alexei Lozovsky
2016-10-27 10:33 ` Aaron Pelly
2016-10-27 10:50 ` Jeff King
2016-10-27 19:48 ` Jacob Keller
2016-10-27 20:59 ` Aaron Pelly [this message]
2016-10-27 21:04 ` Jeff King
2016-10-27 21:26 ` Aaron Pelly
2016-10-27 21:39 ` Jacob Keller
2016-10-30 3:09 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-10-27 20:28 ` Aaron Pelly
2016-10-27 20:55 ` Jeff King
2016-10-27 21:07 ` Jeff King
2016-10-27 22:30 ` Aaron Pelly
2016-10-27 23:07 ` Aaron Pelly
2016-10-28 2:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-10-28 9:32 ` Aaron Pelly
2016-10-30 3:16 ` Duy Nguyen
2016-10-30 12:54 ` Jeff King
2016-10-27 21:55 ` Aaron Pelly
2016-10-27 22:17 ` Aaron Pelly
2016-10-28 8:10 ` Jeff King
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