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nicolas
nicolas

Reputation: 9805

including multiple gitignore files in one

Here is the content of a gitignore of YADR, a popular project built on top of zsh :

  1 # OSX       taken from: https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Global/OSX.gitignore
  2 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  3 .DS_Store
  4 # Thumbnails
  5 ._*
  6 # Files that might appear on external disk
  7 .Spotlight-V100
  8 .Trashes
  9
 10 # Windows   taken from: https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Global/Windows.gitignore
 11 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 12 # Windows image file caches
 13 Thumbs.db
 ...

That looks like an awful solution.

=> Is it not possible to include multiple gitignore, and have them maintained separately ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 416

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1325137

There is no include in a .gitignore for now (Git 2.18, 2018), as (not) seen in the gitignore man page.

The composition is done through multiple .gitignore files at multiple folder levels (one .gitignore per folder): the .gitignore in the deepest folder adds its rules to the ones from .gitignore of direct parent folders.

Upvotes: 3

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