Re: jgit and ignore

Tor Arne Vestbø [off-list ref] wrote:

Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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Just to be clear, I noticed you left out the global core.excludesfile
(from ~/.gitconfig) here. I guess this intentional?

No, I didn't.  core.excludesfile is read from the config, the config
is a union of /etc/gitconfig, ~/.gitconfig, and GIT_DIR/config.  The
last setting wins.

Ah, I see, I thought each config was read in a separate steps. Thanks
for clearing that up.

Well, they are.

But in git-core the value is pulled into a single static.  For a
string its often a single static char*.  So the config handle
function is called up to 3 times for foo.bar, and the last one to
be called is the one that finally set the value.  They are read
in the order I described above, so GIT_DIR/config has a chance to
override any prior setting.

In JGit the RepositoryConfig object parses the other direction.
Its a more classical "default" pattern, where if GIT_DIR/config
doesn't have a foo.bar we call to another instance which had parsed
~/.gitconfig, and so on.

Either way produces the same result.

-- 
Shawn.