core.excludesfile clean-up

There are inconsistencies in the way commands currently handle
the core.excludesfile configuration variable.  The problem is
the variable is too new to be noticed by anything other than
git-add and git-status.

 * git-ls-files does not notice any of the "ignore" files by
   default, as it predates the standardized set of ignore files.
   The calling scripts established the convention to use
   .git/info/exclude, .gitignore, and later core.excludesfile.

 * git-add and git-status know about it because they call
   add_excludes_from_file() directly with their own notion of
   which standard set of ignore files to use.  This is just a
   stupid duplication of code that need to be updated every time
   the definition of the standard set of ignore files is
   changed.

 * git-read-tree takes --exclude-per-directory=<gitignore>,
   not because the flexibility was needed.  Again, this was
   because the option predates the standardization of the ignore
   files.

 * git-merge-recursive uses hardcoded per-directory .gitignore
   and nothing else.  git-clean (scripted version) does not
   honor core.* because its call to underlying ls-files does not
   know about it.  git-clean in C (parked in 'pu') doesn't either.

We probably could change git-ls-files to use the standard set
when no excludes are specified on the command line and ignore
processing was asked, or something like that, but that will be a
change in semantics and might break people's scripts in a subtle
way.  I am somewhat reluctant to make such a change.

On the other hand, I think it makes perfect sense to fix
git-read-tree, git-merge-recursive and git-clean to follow the
same rule as other commands.  I do not think of a valid use case
to give an exclude-per-directory that is nonstandard to
read-tree command, outside a "negative" test in the t1004 test
script.

This patch is the first step to untangle this mess.

The next step would be to teach read-tree, merge-recursive and
clean (in C) to use setup_standard_excludes().

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/wt-status.c b/wt-status.c
index 03b5ec448..9a6ef4a89 100644
--- a/wt-status.c
+++ b/wt-status.c
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ static const char use_add_rm_msg[] =
 "use \"git add/rm <file>...\" to update what will be committed";
 static const char use_add_to_include_msg[] =
 "use \"git add <file>...\" to include in what will be committed";
-static const char *excludes_file;
 
 static int parse_status_slot(const char *var, int offset)
 {
@@ -251,22 +250,16 @@ static void wt_status_print_changed(struct wt_status *s)
 static void wt_status_print_untracked(struct wt_status *s)
 {
 	struct dir_struct dir;
-	const char *x;
 	int i;
 	int shown_header = 0;
 
 	memset(&dir, 0, sizeof(dir));
 
-	dir.exclude_per_dir = ".gitignore";
 	if (!s->untracked) {
 		dir.show_other_directories = 1;
 		dir.hide_empty_directories = 1;
 	}
-	x = git_path("info/exclude");
-	if (file_exists(x))
-		add_excludes_from_file(&dir, x);
-	if (excludes_file && file_exists(excludes_file))
-		add_excludes_from_file(&dir, excludes_file);
+	setup_standard_excludes(&dir);
 
 	read_directory(&dir, ".", "", 0, NULL);
 	for(i = 0; i < dir.nr; i++) {
@@ -364,11 +357,5 @@ int git_status_config(const char *k, const char *v)
 		int slot = parse_status_slot(k, 13);
 		color_parse(v, k, wt_status_colors[slot]);
 	}
-	if (!strcmp(k, "core.excludesfile")) {
-		if (!v)
-			die("core.excludesfile without value");
-		excludes_file = xstrdup(v);
-		return 0;
-	}
 	return git_default_config(k, v);
 }