Hi Paul,
Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> Yes, it's a bit of a puzzle. But for Git shouldn't we exclude only
> .git, and not .gitignore, .gitattributes, and .gitmodules? Normally
> these files are under Git control so "git grep" will search them, so
> shouldn't grep --exclude-vcs also search them? Similarly for
> .cvsignore, .hgignore, .hgtags.
I was basing it off the behavior of GNU tar. Doesn't --exclude-vcs there
ignore .gitignore, etc?
Note that the output of --help would make it seems otherwise. But when
tar'ing a local git clone I don't have a .gitignore in it.
$ tar --help | grep 'exclude-vcs'
--exclude-vcs exclude version control system directories
--exclude-vcs-ignores read exclude patterns from the VCS ignore files
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