From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor•de>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: "exclude" and ".gitignore" for everyone
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:16:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <h00nqe$mj4$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E6F58E6B-4ECF-4A55-9249-9A8BBFBDBC24@silverinsanity.com>
Brian Gernhardt wrote:
> On Jun 1, 2009, at 9:46 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> [...]
>> For example I've put "*.[oa]" and "*~" in ./git/info/exclude.
>> However, the rest of the persons doing commits in the public
>> repository might not have those entries. Is everyone required to put
>> those entries in "exclude" themselves or does Git allow for those to
>> be automatically added next time they do a "git pull"?
>
> If you commit a .gitignore, it will be used by everyone.
> .git/info/exclude is for your personal excludes. Generally, I'd suggest
> putting build products in .gitignore and your editor's garbage in
> exclude.
> [...]
> If you add and commit the .gitignore file it will be picked up by
> everyone, while whatever backups, temp files, notes, or whatever you use
> can be kept private in your exclude file.
Thanks, Brian!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-01 14:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-01 13:46 "exclude" and ".gitignore" for everyone Nikos Chantziaras
2009-06-01 13:58 ` Brian Gernhardt
2009-06-01 14:16 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2009-06-01 14:36 ` Matthieu Moy
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