>>>>> "AB" == Adam Back <[email protected]> writes:
AB> You know other source control systems, and presumably git also, have AB> an excludes list which can contain wildcards. It comes prepopulated AB> with eg *.o - as you probably dont want to check them in. For git, the file is called .gitignore. You can add one in any directory in the repo; each file covers that dir and each child dir, and the syntax provides for overriding parent ignores. Git also support per-clone $GIT_DIR/info/exclude and per-user ignore files. Cf gitignore(1). AB> I think you could classify this as a git bug (or more probably a AB> mistake in how github are using/configuring git) that it doesnt AB> exclude checking in .ssh and maybe some of the .ssh exclusive AB> related extensions. There is nothing wrong with using git -- or any other vcs -- to backup one's $HOME. What is arguably dumb is storing that backup on a public site. *Any* public site. And unencrypted at that. This seems to be another case of thoughtless "everything to the cloud" (said with a Q♥-off-with-their-heads sort of tone). ;^/ I'm pretty sure hg and bzr also require the repo to specify what to ignore. -JimC -- James Cloos <[email protected]> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6 _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
