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

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:

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.

System-wide means maximum space save, but it require system
administration to install Zit, and considering that one of the things
I love of Zit now is its being self contained, I would rather not
depend on anything system-wide anyway.

The user .zitignore file is probably the best approach: we can create
it ourselves (usually), and even if Git doesn't expand the pathname
itself, we can just use an absolute path. I'll go that way.

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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta