On 28/10/16 10:07, Jeff King wrote: > I think it does > introduce compatibility complications. People with older git will not > respect your .gitignore.d files. Whereas $GIT_DIR/info is purely a local > matter.
I know. I don't think it's a serious compatibility issue, but more important people may disagree, in which case I'll have to review my stance. I think the pros of it working everywhere outweigh the cons. I will say that I am a proponent of consistency and obviousness. I would rather this worked the same everywhere or it was a completely novel component in $GIT_DIR. I don't think I like the idea much, but it would be possible to magically generate an ignore file from a directory. > But perhaps there is a use case I'm missing. A new repo where the dev tools haven't been standardised yet. New tool, new file. Simple, and somewhat self documenting as a table of contents in .gitignore.d
