From 2da9b9fa1ce3feeaf5f3425d352f038312abb3e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kévin Le Gouguec Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 19:10:15 +0100 Subject: Remove .gitignore MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Adding a setup step feels marginally cleaner than having this dumb match-all .gitignore. 🤷 --- README | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 2e537e5..0f246b7 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -20,7 +20,10 @@ $ git remote add --fetch $cutename $url $ git reset $cutename/master # Checkout dotfiles that were not already in $HOME: -$ git checkout -- .gitignore # … +$ git checkout -- .foo .bar .baz + +# Tell Git to ignore all untracked files: +$ echo '*' >> .git/info/exclude # Tell Git to forget about repository fluff: $ git update-index --assumed-unchanged -- README # … -- cgit v1.2.3