Re: Generating .gitignore files

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 04/20/2009 02:34 AM, Steve Frécinaux wrote:
> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > The idea is that .gitignore files are autogenerated and are NOT stored
> > in the repository. To use, just copy git.mk into your toplevel, add it
> > to git, run "make -f git.mk" and commit all changes it makes to your
> > tree...
>
> If the generated .gitignore is not meant to be committed into the
> repository, maybe the script should edit .git/info/exclude instead ?

Why?  Other than being harder to generate (since current scheme generates 
per-dir .gitignore files) and generally a bad idea to touch the .git dir, "man 
gitignore" also suggests that that's the wrong place:


"Patterns which are specific to a particular repository but which do not need 
to be shared with other related repositories (e.g., auxiliary files that live 
inside the repository but are specific to one user´s workflow) should go into 
the $GIT_DIR/info/exclude file."


behdad