Re: jgit and ignore

Tor Arne Vestbø wrote:

Ferry Huberts (Pelagic) wrote:

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Tor Arne Vestbø wrote:

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In my opinion, EGit should default to using Eclipse's built in ignores,
but then detect the presence of a global core.excludesfile, in which
case it would notify the user ("I see you have a core.excludesfile") and
let the user switch to using that one instead.

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First of all, I do appreciate you working on the ignore feature :)

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I do not agree with your propasal however.
We then would have different behaviour between how 'git' behaves within
Eclipse (by means of the plugin) and how 'git' behaves within the
command line. That alone can cause much more confusion.

I see what you mean, and I agree that in general the command line git
porcelain and the Eclipse git porcelain should work in similar ways.

But, with that said, I think of EGit as a standalone Eclipse-plugin
implementation of the git porcelain -- not just a wrapper around the
command line porcelain.

To me that means that EGit should focus just as much on integrating with
Eclipse properly as it does on keeping command line porcelain
interoperability.

The core.excludesfile is one such case, and I think my proposal is a
good compromise.

how about we all (especially me) think a bit better on this and solve it
later when I've completed the rest? That allows me to focus for now.
I think we can easily synchronise between the eclipse global ignores and
the core.excludesfile when we (really) want to.