[PATCH] add: Support specifying an excludes file with a configuration variable

This adds the 'core.excludesfile' configuration variable. This variable can
hold a path to a file containing patterns of file names to exclude from
git-add, like $GIT_DIR/info/exclude. Patterns in the excludes file are used
in addition to those in info/exclude.

Signed-off-by: James Bowes <redacted>
---

This is a solution to the 'User-wide ignore list' from the recent unresolved
issues email. Thanks go to Junio for the implementation suggestion.

 builtin-add.c |   18 +++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin-add.c b/builtin-add.c
index 87e16aa..9fcf514 100644
--- a/builtin-add.c
+++ b/builtin-add.c

@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 static const char builtin_add_usage[] =
 "git-add [-n] [-v] [-f] [--interactive | -i] [--] <filepattern>...";

+static const char *excludes_file;
+
 static void prune_directory(struct dir_struct *dir, const char

**pathspec, int prefix)
 {
 	char *seen;

@@ -67,6 +69,8 @@ static void fill_directory(struct dir_struct *dir,

const char **pathspec)
 	path = git_path("info/exclude");
 	if (!access(path, R_OK))
 		add_excludes_from_file(dir, path);
+	if (!access(excludes_file, R_OK))
+		add_excludes_from_file(dir, excludes_file);

 	/*
 	 * Calculate common prefix for the pathspec, and

@@ -88,6 +92,18 @@ static void fill_directory(struct dir_struct *dir,

const char **pathspec)
 		prune_directory(dir, pathspec, baselen);
 }

+static int git_add_config(const char *var, const char *value)
+{
+	if (!strcmp(var, "core.excludesfile")) {
+		if (!value)
+			die("core.excludesfile without value");
+		excludes_file = xstrdup(value);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	return git_default_config(var, value);
+}
+
 static struct lock_file lock_file;

 static const char ignore_warning[] =

@@ -115,7 +131,7 @@ int cmd_add(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		exit(1);
 	}

-	git_config(git_default_config);
+	git_config(git_add_config);

 	newfd = hold_lock_file_for_update(&lock_file, get_index_file(), 1);

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