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From: Thangalin <thangalin@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Automatically Add .gitignore Files
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 11:05:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAANrE7rmUZcJkw+thMczv3D=7sqcUHBsorzvEZgYg=6AEfrU=w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

I frequently forget to add .gitignore files when creating new .gitignore files.

I'd like to request a command-line option to always add .gitignore
files (or, more generally, always add files that match a given file
specification).

Replicate

0. git init ...
1. echo "*.bak" >> .gitignore
2. touch file.txt
3. git add file.txt
4. git commit -a -m "..."
5. git push origin master

Expected Results

The .gitignore file is also added to the repository. (This is probably
the 80% use case.)

Actual Results

The .gitignore file is not added to the repository.

Additional Details

At step 4, there should be a prompt, warning, or (preferably) either a
command-line or configuration option to add the .gitignore file prior
to commit, automatically. Such as:

git commit --include-all-gitignore-files -a -m "..."

Or:

echo "**/.gitignore" >> .git/config/add-before-commit

             reply	other threads:[~2017-02-08 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-08 19:05 Thangalin [this message]
2017-02-08 23:39 ` Automatically Add .gitignore Files Junio C Hamano
2017-02-09  0:01   ` Stephan Beyer
2017-02-09 10:03 ` Duy Nguyen
2017-02-09 17:25   ` Thangalin

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