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From: Mischa POSLAWSKY <git@shiar.nl>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"lhf635@163.com" <lhf635@163.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: the opposite of .gitignore, whitelist
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 13:31:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181026113151.dgjta7tlcjgnttcx@shiar.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181026093644.GA20876@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote 2018-10-26 5:36 (-0400):
> I think what Junio meant is to ignore everything by default, like:
> 
>   echo '*' >.gitignore
> 
> and then selectively use negative patterns (and being in .gitignore,
> that makes them positive "yes, include this") to add things back:
> 
>   echo 'foo' >>.gitignore
> 
> which ends up being roughly the same as your .gitonly concept.

To clarify, Peff meant to say echo '!foo' to whitelist. See git help ignore.

-- 
Mischa

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-26 11:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-25  2:39 the opposite of .gitignore, whitelist lhf635
2018-10-25  5:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-25 14:38   ` Jason Cooper
2018-10-26  9:36     ` Jeff King
2018-10-26 11:31       ` Mischa POSLAWSKY [this message]
2018-10-26 11:53         ` Jeff King
2018-10-26 12:39       ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-26 13:28         ` Rafael Ascensão
2018-10-26 13:34         ` Jason Cooper
2018-10-26 15:27           ` Jason Cooper

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