On 18 October 2013 16:55, Karl Wiberg wrote:
> You don't need to unignore files that are already under version
> control; as soon as you've git add'ed them, git won't ignore them
> anymore. So there should never be a need to unignore anything that
> doesn't have a glob in it.
>
In which case, wh
Thanks for the replies. I'll try this method of just using `*` with
`git add -f`. At first I thought it would be better to explicitly list
included files in .gitignore but now it just seems like more work :)
Evan
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On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Evan R. Murphy wrote:
> # Ignore everything by default
> /*
> # "Unignore" this .gitignore file
> !/.gitignore
> # Add here everything else you want to unignore
> !/.vimrc
You don't need to unignore files that are already under version
control; as soon as you've
Hey,
I think the main risk here is that you could fail to realise what your
git commands are doing and accidentally wipe stuff out of your home
directory, which would suck. I seem to remember Torvalds, or some git
documentation, expicitly saying not to have a git repo in your ~.
Perhaps the most
Howdy!
First post. I found this group through this post on the Unix & Linux Stack
Exchange:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/46538/are-there-pitfalls-to-putting-home-in-git-instead-of-symlinking-dotfiles/46835#46835
I'm experimenting with checking my $HOME directory into Git for the first