From 039bc64e886716593d59910694a6c8ed5b72c515 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:05:00 -0800 Subject: 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=, 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 --- environment.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'environment.c') diff --git a/environment.c b/environment.c index b5a6c69f7..1dab72ec1 100644 --- a/environment.c +++ b/environment.c @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ char *pager_program; int pager_in_use; int pager_use_color = 1; char *editor_program; +char *excludes_file; int auto_crlf = 0; /* 1: both ways, -1: only when adding git objects */ /* This is set by setup_git_dir_gently() and/or git_default_config() */ -- cgit v1.2.1