From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Daniel Finnie <dan@danfinnie•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: git ls-files -X option is relative to repo root
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 12:54:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqiof5mt0q.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqmw4hmtlw.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Fri, 13 Feb 2015 12:42:03 -0800")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:
> ... It does not make sense to allow where you are
> to affect behaviour of the command, i.e. in these two invocations of
> ls-files:
>
> git ls-files -X /var/tmp/exclude -i
> cd example && git ls-files -X /var/tmp/exclude -i
>
> if the same line in /var/tmp/exclude meant completely different
> things, it would be crazy.
To put it another way, think of --exclude-from as a way to specify a
replacement for .git/info/excludes, and --exclude-per-directory as a
way to specify a replacement for the in-tree .gitignore files.
Historically, we did not have the --exclude-standard option from the
beginning, and only after we gained experience with --exclude-from
and --exclude-per-directory in our scripts, the --exclude-standard
was added to codify the (then-) best-current-practice after the fact,
and we used --exclude-from for exactly that purpose before then.
cf. 8e7b07c8 (git-ls-files: add --exclude-standard, 2007-11-15)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-13 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-13 19:23 git ls-files -X option is relative to repo root Daniel Finnie
2015-02-13 20:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-02-13 20:54 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-02-13 21:19 ` Daniel Finnie
2015-02-13 22:02 ` Junio C Hamano
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