Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:12:25AM +0000, Ryan Jacobs wrote:
>
>> Alberto Fanjul Alonso <albertofanjul <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> 
>> > git ignore <whatever> adds <whatever> to .git/info/exclude
>> 
>> This should be "git exclude" not "git ignore".
>> Difference between the two: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10066749/git-
>> excludes-vs-ignores
>
> I am not sure that the name difference is all that meaningful. Yes, we
> call the repo-wide file .git/info/exclude and the in-tree ones
> .gitignore, but I do not know if the distinction is more than historical
> accident.

It is merely a historical accident.


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