Re: as promised, docs: git for the confused

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: 2005-12-13 16:19:19
merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

> ...  I also don't see any direct support for .gitignore files
> in any of the plumbing.  Am I missing something there?

No, you are not missing anything.

The only Plumbing support is that ls-files takes --exclude-from=
and --exclude-per-directory= options.  It is up to the Porcelain
layer what names to use.

We agreed upon a convention to use .gitignore as per-directory
and .git/info/exclude (I think this came from existing practice
by Cogito back then) as the tree-wide fallback, when these two
flags were introduced to ls-files, for interoperability across
Porcelains.

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