On Fri, December 2, 2011 7:26 pm, Stephan Beal wrote: > On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Eric <e...@deptj.eu> wrote: > >> Why on earth would you want to? >> >> I know others have offered suggestions and explanations for how to do >> it, >> but I would never have a "dotfile" (or a symlink for that matter) in a >> repository, so I'm really asking about the use-case. >> >> > Think ".gitignore" and friends. Some tools support files like that for > holding various metadata (some non-git tools support .gitignore). > > http://gitready.com/beginner/2009/01/19/ignoring-files.html >
Oh, I know about those. But they are one of 1) needed at build or install time, in which case the build and install scripts create them 2) part of my common development environment, in which case they are not part of what I am developing and do not belong in its repository Eric -- ms fnd in a lbry _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
