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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>
To: "Wesley J. Landaker" <wjl@icecavern•net>
Cc: Ralf Thielow <ralf.thielow@googlemail•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: why no "ignore" command on git
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:31:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqaazsrj0q.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910142220.51725.wjl@icecavern.net> (Wesley J. Landaker's message of "Wed\, 14 Oct 2009 22\:20\:50 -0600")

"Wesley J. Landaker" <wjl@icecavern•net> writes:

> 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

Sure. OTOH, there are other interesting things a "ignore" command can
do. bzr, for example, has a "bzr ignore" command that can either add
stuff to your .bzrignore, or tell you which pattern cause which file
to be ignored. That's handy sometimes.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-15 11:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-14 22:35 why no "ignore" command on git Ralf Thielow
2009-10-14 23:02 ` Scott Wiersdorf
2009-10-15  4:20 ` Wesley J. Landaker
2009-10-15  9:29   ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-10-15 11:31   ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2009-10-15 15:52     ` Jeff King

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