n Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 4:30 PM Pavel Raiskup <prais...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Monday, July 30, 2018 3:04:06 PM CEST Michal Novotny wrote:
> > Can I at least make tar (by passing some additional arguments) take the
> > parent .gitignores into consideration?
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> I don't like that idea; IMO GNU tar should rely on /bin/git to interpret
> gitignore ('git check-ignore').
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Thanks for the tip about 'git check-ignore'. I didn't know about it.
clime
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> > Is there a summary, how tar's support for .gitignore files differs from
> > git's native implementation?
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> I don't think there's such documentation, see also:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2016-12/msg00001.html
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