Comments on: git ignore files http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/05/17/git-ignore-files/ Alex Miller's technical blog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:39:50 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: IdleWorx http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/05/17/git-ignore-files/comment-page-1/#comment-216331 IdleWorx Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:08:38 +0000 http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/05/17/git-ignore-files/#comment-216331 Your post was really useful. I was trying to figure out some things about ignoring CVS files when committing GIT projects on windows and found a few good pieces of information here, particularly about the excludesfile property (which is a little hard to understand from the docs). I recently wrote a similar post regarding ignore files on Windows, with some inspiration from yours. Let me know what you think. http://blog.idleworx.com/2010/06/setting-up-gitignore-for-java-web.html Your post was really useful.
I was trying to figure out some things about ignoring CVS files when committing GIT projects on windows and found a few good pieces of information here, particularly about the excludesfile property (which is a little hard to understand from the docs).

I recently wrote a similar post regarding ignore files on Windows, with some inspiration from yours. Let me know what you think.

http://blog.idleworx.com/2010/06/setting-up-gitignore-for-java-web.html

]]> By: uxp http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/05/17/git-ignore-files/comment-page-1/#comment-182009 uxp Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:44:42 +0000 http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/05/17/git-ignore-files/#comment-182009 To everyone that is having an issue with the: git config --global core.excludes ... command, it is because you are surrounding the path in quotes, which treats it as a literal string, instead of a path. git config --global core.excludes ~/.gitignore is the proper command. it can be substituted as: git config --clobal core.excludes "/home/username/.gitignore" but that is being treated as a literal, as explained. String literals and paths are mutually exclusive when they reference the same thing. To everyone that is having an issue with the:
git config –global core.excludes …

command, it is because you are surrounding the path in quotes, which treats it as a literal string, instead of a path.

git config –global core.excludes ~/.gitignore

is the proper command. it can be substituted as:

git config –clobal core.excludes “/home/username/.gitignore”

but that is being treated as a literal, as explained. String literals and paths are mutually exclusive when they reference the same thing.

]]> By: finnw http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/05/17/git-ignore-files/comment-page-1/#comment-167656 finnw Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:14:52 +0000 http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/05/17/git-ignore-files/#comment-167656 Beware of UTF-8 byte-order marks at the start of your excludes file. I just got bitten by this when my editor inserted a BOM. It took me about an hour to figure out why git seemed to be paying no attention to the excludes file. Beware of UTF-8 byte-order marks at the start of your excludes file. I just got bitten by this when my editor inserted a BOM. It took me about an hour to figure out why git seemed to be paying no attention to the excludes file.

]]> By: corysama http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/05/17/git-ignore-files/comment-page-1/#comment-147321 corysama Sat, 28 Feb 2009 05:28:28 +0000 http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/05/17/git-ignore-files/#comment-147321 Putting quotes around the path for the excludesfile did not work for me. Without the quotes, it does work however: git config --global core.excludesfile /Users/corysama/.gitignore Putting quotes around the path for the excludesfile did not work for me. Without the quotes, it does work however:

git config –global core.excludesfile /Users/corysama/.gitignore

]]> By: nicolas rolland http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/05/17/git-ignore-files/comment-page-1/#comment-133305 nicolas rolland Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:03:02 +0000 http://tech.puredanger.com/2008/05/17/git-ignore-files/#comment-133305 Hello, Thanks for the tip. So a full path is indeed necessary. In the end, I had to do git config --global core.excludesfile "<b>/Users/nrolland/</b>.gitignore" and the content of the .gitignore file is macflashy:~ nrolland$ cat ~/.gitignore *.o build/**/* .DS_Store *.app *.swp *~.nib *.pbxuser *.perspective *.perspectivev3 *.mode1v3 *.mode2v3 Hello,

Thanks for the tip.
So a full path is indeed necessary.
In the end, I had to do

git config –global core.excludesfile “/Users/nrolland/.gitignore”

and the content of the .gitignore file is
macflashy:~ nrolland$ cat ~/.gitignore
*.o
build/**/*
.DS_Store
*.app
*.swp
*~.nib
*.pbxuser
*.perspective
*.perspectivev3
*.mode1v3
*.mode2v3

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