From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_INVALID, DKIM_SIGNED,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4809F20248 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2019 00:38:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726139AbfCGAiX (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Mar 2019 19:38:23 -0500 Received: from mail-wr1-f66.google.com ([209.85.221.66]:43830 "EHLO mail-wr1-f66.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726010AbfCGAiX (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Mar 2019 19:38:23 -0500 Received: by mail-wr1-f66.google.com with SMTP id d17so15433603wre.10 for ; Wed, 06 Mar 2019 16:38:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=1NYnLxVnk7XgKYyNczkCdhxOEir8KfiY1idnDcDGqkU=; b=hjs/gM9aEVCZU1lQkF+Y/JCKj87ay3IDlXPfAE1Rw+jakdBlP5hdN53w6PActjnzxl sBwLj1Z2vukvpekE7tJEIaMbjiYqYZ+xqWEu4sk4mdEE5/ht2O7kwUQxgLL3RA/J7hCm BbBPrAFNlcsm9eiffLhXLO2CpLOBBtOMZWCZ8ImTY44gjqnvXpMRBA3HzM0TjIXvjwTp 3nTmJlP0W5xlKuEzh+RKOaLVIm33XDwBXb2vNLW8ocNA57nW8SfHjiFMvgRPoqlJekHF HwED2milS9M7tKXYv8GICJctiRBBGaP/C4oeSzDuxNFzd4MOU9trdl4D620b06lu+t9u wn/A== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date :in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=1NYnLxVnk7XgKYyNczkCdhxOEir8KfiY1idnDcDGqkU=; b=qt5hswBfTUTGDf4AdRqhBdf9ul9PX+T74QXh6DJE5/3g8U4buM4CiJ0LzWaJfTCL5z 0MdR4c/tmOqlhrpSvycp7dbMCBEU+b5U6X1fTHpQdJh7ZhZixC2ZX5+ex9vXOsZ4MDd6 RBR3XvkAko3oxVl/sHw6O2bV7zCku8Z3c29ilXrVQh+KY2j3MZ22qsPO5gvUNgYnMxsN 4Kr91LGHMrHre6QdHqkMe8e0yBOH+hPCmstoRiDMgbSXTqDLNcc7Tl4PsTeoNx8D1uYt jSlF7bGY4Zl0Pn2QT1tXayF3zFVuFOWIAibyA0BnElQgjxcFLSRIe4EAlOOl04up5b57 6QoQ== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAWA/bRBvyhfYqEwoAeA7NW1wJbwVQciPJqYnLZrQ4PNBqUmsKJ3 khS/7bELl3gb+/eDKZesixc= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqye0ZZTnMlauoJZ3W8gfc4AWqQWVFaeeBsMN8PnrwVcsHQ/nxOq39TwVlG6SnbzyM5RvQW9GA== X-Received: by 2002:adf:b648:: with SMTP id i8mr4661393wre.319.1551919101364; Wed, 06 Mar 2019 16:38:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (168.50.187.35.bc.googleusercontent.com. [35.187.50.168]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id q135sm5988150wme.43.2019.03.06.16.38.20 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Wed, 06 Mar 2019 16:38:20 -0800 (PST) From: Junio C Hamano To: Martin =?utf-8?Q?=C3=85gren?= Cc: Denton Liu , Git Mailing List , "Robert P. J. Day" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] git-clean.txt: specify core.excludesFile variable is used References: Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 09:38:20 +0900 In-Reply-To: ("Martin =?utf-8?Q?=C3=85gren=22's?= message of "Wed, 6 Mar 2019 21:22:01 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Martin Ågren writes: > But on the topic of preferring shorter, I sort of wonder if we really > need to provide all of those filenames here. The point we're trying to > make is that we consider another source. So something like this would be > just as technically correct, I think: > > Use the given exclude pattern in addition to those found in .gitignore > and similar files (see linkgit:gitignore[5]). Yes. Unless we devise some mechanism to prevent these text that list the places exclusion list are read from spread across the documentation set, saying "found in usual places (see $there)" and making sure we have the authoritative single place up-to-date is a good approach.