On 2014-04-16 16:45, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Hi,
a...@bellandwhistle.net wrote:
In particular, 'exclude' is spottily documented.
Where did you expect to read about it? I see some mention of
.git/info/exclude in the gitignore(5) page, but I wouldn't be
surprised if there's room for improvement there (improvements
welcome).
I suppose I might consider amending the opening sentence at:
http://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore
from:
"A gitignore file specifies intentionally untracked files that Git
should ignore."
to something that makes the point earlier about the similarity:
"Both gitignore and $GIT_DIR/info/exclude files specify intentionally
untracked files that Git should ignore."
or:
"Like the $GIT_DIR/info/exclude file, gitignore files specify
intentionally untracked files that Git should ignore. The difference is
that files matched by a pattern in a gitignore file will be untracked
for all users of the repository."
or somesuch.
The other thing is that there is no warning in the docs that
assume-unchanged is not an absolute promise to ignore. This is news to
me. I don't see this anywhere. I understand now that the use case is
performance, but that could be clearer.
thanks again
Alex
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