New topic: self-ignoring ignores

[westonruter]

Git is better than Subversion in that it can do “self-ignoring ignores”, that is, temporary ignores. For example, creating a git-repo/committed-xml-dir/.gitignore:

/.gitignore
/*.xml

This will cause all XML files in that directory to then be ignored, and if you do a git status the .gitignore won't show up either. This allows files to be temporarily ignored locally without having to commit anything. In contrast, Subversion ignores are handled via a the svn:ignore property, and you can't do svn propset svn:ignore "*.xml" ." and then ignore the ignore viasvn:ignore "." .`—it doesn't work.

[MatrixFrog]

I would say git is better just because of the whole svn:ignore thing in general. I can't see what is ignored without using svn itself. If I want to ignore something, but I don't want to force everyone else to ignore it, I have to change my svn:ignore settings and then every time I commit, I need to exclude that particular property. It's just so much more of pain vs. cat .gitignore