Yohei Endo <yoh...@gmail.com> writes: > I read the document of gitignore (http://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore), > and learned that $GIT_DIR/info/exclude has higher precedence than > the file specified by core.excludesfile. > > But I noticed that patterns in core.excludesfile override patterns in > $GIT_DIR/info/exclude.
I tend to agree that info/exclude which is per-repository personal preference should take precedence over $XDG_HOME/git/ignore which is a personal preference across repositories that are accessed from that machine. It appears that the precedence was screwed-up between these two files from the very beginning when 896bdfa2 (add: Support specifying an excludes file with a configuration variable, 2007-02-27) introduced core.excludesfile variable; seeing that nobody so far complained with the discrepancy between the documentation and the behaviour, it would indicate either (1) nobody reads the docs, or (2) nobody uses both at the same time. Swapping the order in the code this late in the game after 8 years may affect people who have come to rely on the current behaviour and never read the doc, which is somewhat worrying, though. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
