> rpj...@crashcourse.ca:
> but even that isn't a really compelling reason. so what's it for?
I use it to ignore stuff in my git-versioned home directory.
Every time I use a new program and it creates a config file or a config
directory, it shows up as clutter in magit in my git versioned home
directory.
I started with putting the stuff to be ignored in .gitignore, but since
I run different stuff on different machines and on different OSes,
.gitignore started to contain irrelevant stuff (ignoring a stuff from a
program that was run once and then never again, ignoring stuff on one
machine that maybe should not be ignored on a different machine), and
then I figured it was much simpler to just ignore stuff repo-locally in
.git/info/exclude
