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

From: Matthieu Moy <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:31:01 +0200

"Wesley J. Landaker" <[email-masked]> 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.

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Matthieu Moy
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