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From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha•warpmail.net>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag•fr>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, gitster@pobox•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH (resend)] Let core.excludesfile default to ~/.gitexcludes.
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:00:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B0E6DC9.3070105@drmicha.warpmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1259231726-5218-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy venit, vidit, dixit 26.11.2009 11:35:
> Most users will set it to ~/.gitsomething. ~/.gitignore would conflict
> with per-directory ignore file if ~/ is managed by Git, so ~/.gitexcludes
> is a sane default.

I'm sorry to jump in so late, and this may sound like bike-shedding, but
right now we have

.git/info/exclude
.gitignore

and this would add

~/.gitexcludes

That is, three terms, or two, where one comes in two variations
(exclude/exludes). I always wondered why we have two.

The reason for .gitignore is most probably the similarity to
.${othervcs}ignore, and that is a valid reason.

I know we have ~/.gitconfig for the global version of .git/config, and
maybe that was just no good idea either. But I don't even dare
suggesting to rename it ~/.gitglobalconfig.

So, in line at least with our term "global" (per user) config, I would
suggest to use "~/.gitglobalignore" for the global ignore file. Maybe,
eventually, we'll manage to rename .git/info/excludes to .git/info/ignore.

On a somewhat larger scale, a good alternative strategy would be to have
a directory "~/.gitglobal/" in which Git would look for
~/.gitglobal/config and
~/.gitglobal/info/ignore or
~/.gitglobal/ignore

i.e. mirroring the repo structure or at least bundling everything in a
single dir, which would also be a good place for a global svnauthors
file and such, and for other global configuration files we don't think
of right now.

Michael

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-26 12:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-20 13:23 [PATCH] let core.excludesfile default to ~/.gitignore Matthieu Moy
2009-11-20 14:30 ` Stefan Naewe
2009-11-20 18:50   ` David Aguilar
2009-11-21 22:00   ` [PATCH v2] Let core.excludesfile default to ~/.gitexcludes Matthieu Moy
2009-11-26 10:35     ` [PATCH (resend)] " Matthieu Moy
2009-11-26 12:00       ` Michael J Gruber [this message]
2009-11-26 12:49         ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-11-26 13:27           ` Michael J Gruber
2009-11-26 13:01         ` Bert Wesarg
2009-11-26 13:39           ` Michael J Gruber
2009-11-26 20:07             ` David Aguilar
2009-11-26 18:18         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-12-30 13:41     ` [PATCH v2] " Nanako Shiraishi
2009-12-30 14:31       ` Matthieu Moy
2009-12-30 19:49         ` Junio C Hamano
2010-01-02 12:05           ` User-wide Git config directory (was Re: [PATCH v2] Let core.excludesfile default to ~/.gitexcludes.) Matthieu Moy
2009-11-20 22:49 ` [PATCH] let core.excludesfile default to ~/.gitignore Junio C Hamano

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