Re: [RFC] extending git-ls-files --exclude.

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

I personally do not have preference either way, but am slightly
biased towards the "cumulative" behaviour the patch attempts to
implement, which was what Pasky said he wanted to have.

I think that makes sense.

Imagine, for example, that you have separate subdirectory structures for 
Documentation and for source - maybe you'd put the "*.o" rule in the 
source directory, and a "*.1" rule in the Docs subdirectory.

			Linus