Re: [PATCH] clean: new option --exclude-from

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 09:44:25AM -0500, James wrote:

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From: James Rouzier <redacted>

Specify a file to read for exclude patterns.
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Lots of commands care about excludes (e.g., "add", "status").

Should this perhaps be an option to the main "git" to append to the set
of excludes?

You can kind-of do this already with:

  git -c core.excludesfile=/path/to/whatever clean ...

but of course you might be using core.excludesfile already. I wonder if
that config option should take multiple values and respect all of them,
rather than last-one-wins.

It is likely that existing users are already using $HOME/.gitconfig
that sets core.excludesfile=$HOME/.gitconfig as the personal
fallback, that is overriden, not tweaked, by project specific
settings of the same variable in .git/config, so that would not fly
very well, I suspect.