Re: [RFC] Zit: the git-based single file content tracker

On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:46 PM,  [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

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It seems that tags, hooks, branches and description can be done with.

do you mean 'can be done away with'?

Ahem. Yes. I've got a patch ready for zit that gets rid of them.

(A smarter way would be to create a template, but I'm not smart.)

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info contains exclude which is rather essential,

is it? by default everything in this file is commented out. And with you
only adding files explicitly why would it ever need to excluded anything?

Zit does
		echo "*" > $GIT_DIR/info/exclude
and yes it sucks to use a whole block for a file that only contains
one character. Suggestions welcome.

can this be configured in the config file?

The reason why we want the exclude is that when you do zit status
somefile you don't want every other file in the directory to come up
as 'not tracked'.

good point.

David Lang