Jeff King wrote 2018-10-26 5:36 (-0400): > I think what Junio meant is to ignore everything by default, like: > > echo '*' >.gitignore > > and then selectively use negative patterns (and being in .gitignore, > that makes them positive "yes, include this") to add things back: > > echo 'foo' >>.gitignore > > which ends up being roughly the same as your .gitonly concept.
To clarify, Peff meant to say echo '!foo' to whitelist. See git help ignore. -- Mischa
