Re: why no "ignore" command on git

"Wesley J. Landaker" [off-list ref] writes:

On Wednesday 14 October 2009 16:35:23 Ralf Thielow wrote:

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why does git don't have an "ignore" command, to ignore some files or
directories all the time.

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I read on some pages by a google search that you can create
a ".gitignore" directory or something like that. But you had to do
this manually.

why there is no "ignore" command on git?

You could always make your own git-ignore script, e.g.:

#!/bin/sh
echo "$@" >> .gitignore

Sure. OTOH, there are other interesting things a "ignore" command can
do. bzr, for example, has a "bzr ignore" command that can either add
stuff to your .bzrignore, or tell you which pattern cause which file
to be ignored. That's handy sometimes.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 01:31:01PM +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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why there is no "ignore" command on git?

You could always make your own git-ignore script, e.g.:

#!/bin/sh
echo "$@" >> .gitignore

Sure. OTOH, there are other interesting things a "ignore" command can
do. bzr, for example, has a "bzr ignore" command that can either add
stuff to your .bzrignore, or tell you which pattern cause which file
to be ignored. That's handy sometimes.

I wrote a toy patch that did something like that a while ago:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/108671/focus=108842

I don't think there is any reason such a thing could not be included
with git (if it did something more interesting than just echoing its
arguments to .gitignore), but nobody has felt strongly enough about it
yet to actually write something polished.

-Peff