From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Mischa POSLAWSKY <git@shiar.nl>
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 07:53:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181026115358.GA26844@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181026113151.dgjta7tlcjgnttcx@shiar.net>
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 01:31:51PM +0200, Mischa POSLAWSKY wrote:
> 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.
Oops, yes, thank you.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-26 11:54 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
2018-10-26 11:53 ` Jeff King [this message]
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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