Petr Baudis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have it the other way around, with the rationale that your default > settings should be in your ~/.gitrc, not environment, which is always > the highest priority.
That's true. I just never hand commit other people's patches (I use applymbox for that) and never needed to give one-shot set of environment variables to commit-tree by hand from the command line. > (Quite some things came to git from Cogito anyway. ;-) And well, that's > completely natural.) I am not the one who did the barebone, so I'd let Linus to tell "coming from" and "done independently while retaining compatibility" apart if he wants to ;-). >> Personally, I think having to have ignore pattern like .cvsignore >> per-directory is simply _ugly_. > > No, I think it's great. That increases the locality of things, which is > good. Think about it as of variables - it's nicer to have them local. Seeing Catalin also expressed the intention to add .gitignore in directory tree everywhere, I would keep my personal opinion to myself. How about we do something like this: git-ls-files --others --exclude-from=.git/ignore \ --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore When the new flag --exclude-per-directory is specified, git-ls-files uses the file with that name in each directory it looks at to match against the files in that directory (and its subdirectories, perhaps?) just like it uses --exclude-from for the entire tree today. If I added that, would both of you be able to lose a lot of lines from cg-status and git.__tree_status()? If so, then that is worth the core-side support. What should the pattern matching rules be? I think the current git-ls-files one may be a bit too weak. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html