Re: [PATCH 3/4 v8] Let core.attributesfile default to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:54:10
Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] writes:
quoted hunk
Actually, it would even make sense to reduce the number of occurences of "excludes" in the UI, e.g. support something like core.ignoresfile as an alias for core.excludesfile, along the lines of:--- a/config.c +++ b/config.c@@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ static int git_default_core_config(const char *var, const char *value) if (!strcmp(var, "core.askpass")) return git_config_string(&askpass_program, var, value); - if (!strcmp(var, "core.excludesfile")) + if (!strcmp(var, "core.excludesfile") || !strcmp(var, "core.ignoresfile")) return git_config_pathname(&excludes_file, var, value);
I somehow suspect this is going backwards. ".gitignore" may have been the original mistake; it is much more than ".cvsignore". But I do not deeply care either way. It just felt $path/git/ignore was out of place given $path/.git/info/exclude has been with us almost forever.