Subject: Re: why no "ignore" command on git

From: "Wesley J. Landaker" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:20:50 -0600

On Wednesday 14 October 2009 16:35:23 Ralf Thielow wrote:
> why does git don't have an "ignore" command, to ignore some files or
> directories all the time.
[...]
> I read on some pages by a google search that you can create
> a ".gitignore" directory or something like that. But you had to do
> this manually.
>
> why there is no "ignore" command on git?

You could always make your own git-ignore script, e.g.:

#!/bin/sh
echo "$@" >> .gitignore