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

On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:54 PM,  [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

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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?

Yes, the file pointed at by the config key core.excludesfile is read
too, so we could have it point at $GIT_DIR/zitexclude, which would
allow us to spare a block. The most space saving would be achieved by
a core.excludepattern or similar key, which would allow us to get rid
of the exclude file altogether.

Well, with all zit repositories in '.zit/' directory (similar to RCS/)
you could have point core.excludesfile to _common_ '.zit/excludes';
the pattern doesn't change from zit repository to zit repository?

You could even use per-user ~/.zitignore (I'm not sure if git expands 
'~' in paths; there was some patch for it, but was it accepted?) or 
system-wide /usr/lib/zitignore or /usr/libexec/zitignore file.
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Jakub Narebski
Poland