>>>>> rpj...@crashcourse.ca: > but even that isn't a really compelling reason. so what's it for?
I use it to ignore stuff in my git-versioned home directory. Every time I use a new program and it creates a config file or a config directory, it shows up as clutter in magit in my git versioned home directory. I started with putting the stuff to be ignored in .gitignore, but since I run different stuff on different machines and on different OSes, .gitignore started to contain irrelevant stuff (ignoring a stuff from a program that was run once and then never again, ignoring stuff on one machine that maybe should not be ignored on a different machine), and then I figured it was much simpler to just ignore stuff repo-locally in .git/info/exclude
