Olaf Klischat <olaf.klisc...@gmail.com> writes:
> ... scenarios where you want to feed the file list into git add
> via find or other external commands (`find .... | xargs git add'),
> which you wouldn't want to carefully tune...
Can you explain this kind of thing in the actual commit log message
when you reroll (if you will do so)?
I also cannot help but find that `scenario` an artificially made-up
one. The description did not feel convincing enough, even if it
were in the proposed commit log message, to justify such an option.
A few questions.
- What were the kind of patterns useful in the above `find` in your
real life example?
- The use of `find` means giving pathspecs from the command line,
e.g. "git add foo/ \*.rb", wouldn't have been sufficient. Are
there something we could improve this in more direct way?
- Why was it too cumbersome to add the idiomatic
\( -name '*.o' -o -name '*~' \) -prune -o
or something like that in front of whatever patterns were used?
- Perhaps a filter that takes a list of paths and emits only the
ignored paths (or only the unignored paths) would be a more
generic approach? You could feed the output from `find` to such
a filter, and then drive not just "git add" but other commands
that take paths if you solved it that way.
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