On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Jeff King <p...@peff.net> wrote: > I'm not convinced this is needed for in-repo .gitignore files. The point > is that you are pulling together separate files that may be administered > independently. But git repositories inherently have a whole-project > view. I'm not sure that separate files buy you a lot there. And the > compatibility issues are more complicated. >
I had just assumed it would be used everywhere, so I hadn't really considered whether that was any reason not to. I personally like the idea of splitting my git ignores into separate files just so each file can be about one thing, but I guess it's not really a problem either way. > I do agree that: > > cd .git/info > git clone /my/exclude/repo exclude ;# or exclude.d > > should work; ignoring dotfiles when reading the directory solves that, > and is a pretty standard solution. > > -Peff
