Re: [OCLUG-Tech] is there a way to identify superfluous .gitignore lines?

2017-09-11 Thread Alex Pilon
On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 06:52:28PM +, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > is there some variation of, say, "git check-ignore" that will scan the > hierarchy of .gitignore files once that build is done and display the > .gitignore entries for which there are no matches? Funny, man git-check-ignore. I

[OCLUG-Tech] is there a way to identify superfluous .gitignore lines?

2017-09-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
YAGQ (yet another git question): is there a way to identify lines in .gitignore files that appear to be superfluous? to be more informative, if i have a software project, and it has a "make world" target that should build absolutely everything, is there some variation of, say, "git