[Bug-tar] --exclude-vcs-ignores does not read .gitignore files from parent directories

2018-07-30 Thread Michal Novotny
Hello, if I invoke tar --exclude-vcs-ignores on a subdirectory of a Git repository, the files that should be ignored per .gitignore file placed in a top-level repo directory, are not ignored. It would be nice if tar could operate the same way git archive operates in this respect. Can I at least m

Re: [Bug-tar] --exclude-vcs-ignores does not read .gitignore files from parent directories

2018-07-30 Thread Michal Novotny
n Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 4:30 PM Pavel Raiskup 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? > > I don't like that idea; IMO G