Re: Expanding Includes in .gitignore

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

I'm not convinced this is needed for in-repo .gitignore files. The point
is that you are pulling together separate files that may be administered
independently. But git repositories inherently have a whole-project
view. I'm not sure that separate files buy you a lot there. And the
compatibility issues are more complicated.

I had just assumed it would be used everywhere, so I hadn't really
considered whether that was any reason not to. I personally like the
idea of splitting my git ignores into separate files just so each file
can be about one thing, but I guess it's not really a problem either
way.

I do agree that:

  cd .git/info
  git clone /my/exclude/repo exclude ;# or exclude.d

should work; ignoring dotfiles when reading the directory solves that,
and is a pretty standard solution.

-Peff