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2008-10-30Use git_pathdup instead of xstrdup(git_path(...))Libravatar Alex Riesen1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-28Make use of stat.ctime configurableLibravatar Alex Riesen1-0/+4
A new configuration variable 'core.trustctime' is introduced to allow ignoring st_ctime information when checking if paths in the working tree has changed, because there are situations where it produces too much false positives. Like when file system crawlers keep changing it when scanning and using the ctime for marking scanned files. The default is to notice ctime changes. Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-13Move code interpreting path relative to exec-dir to new function system_path()Libravatar Steffen Prohaska1-9/+2
Expanding system paths relative to git_exec_path can be used for creating an installation that can be moved to a different directory without re-compiling. We use this approach for template_dir and the system wide gitconfig. The Windows installer (msysgit) is an example for such a setup. This commit moves common code to a new function system_path(). System paths that are to be interpreted relative to git_exec_path are passed to system_path() and the return value is used instead of the original path. system_path() prefixes a relative path with git_exec_path and leaves absolute paths unmodified. For example, we now write template_dir = system_path(DEFAULT_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR); [j6t: moved from path.c to exec_cmd.c] Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-01Only use GIT_CONFIG in "git config", not other programsLibravatar Daniel Barkalow1-27/+20
For everything other than using "git config" to read or write a git-style config file that isn't the current repo's config file, GIT_CONFIG was actively detrimental. Rather than argue over which programs are important enough to have work anyway, just fix all of them at the root. Also removes GIT_LOCAL_CONFIG, which would only be useful for programs that do want to use global git-specific config, but not the repo's own git-specific config, and want to use some other, presumably git-specific config. Despite being documented, I can't find any sign that it was ever used. Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-25Merge branch 'lt/config-fsync'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-20/+62
* lt/config-fsync: Add config option to enable 'fsync()' of object files Split up default "i18n" and "branch" config parsing into helper routines Split up default "user" config parsing into helper routine Split up default "core" config parsing into helper routine
2008-06-19config.c: make git_env_bool() staticLibravatar しらいしななこ1-1/+1
This function is not used by any other file. Signed-off-by: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-18Add config option to enable 'fsync()' of object filesLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-0/+5
As explained in the documentation[*] this is totally useless on filesystems that do ordered/journalled data writes, but it can be a useful safety feature on filesystems like HFS+ that only journal the metadata, not the actual file contents. It defaults to off, although we could presumably in theory some day auto-enable it on a per-filesystem basis. [*] Yes, I updated the docs for the thing. Hell really _has_ frozen over, and the four horsemen are probably just beyond the horizon. EVERYBODY PANIC! Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-18Split up default "i18n" and "branch" config parsing into helper routinesLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-11/+29
.. just to finish it off. We'll leave the pager color config alone, since it is such an odd-ball special case anyway. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-18Split up default "user" config parsing into helper routineLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-4/+13
This follows the example of the "core" config, and splits out the default "user" config option parsing into a helper routine. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-18Split up default "core" config parsing into helper routineLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-16/+26
It makes the code a bit easier to read, and in theory a bit faster too (no need to compare all the different "core.*" strings against non-core config options). The config system really should get something of a complete overhaul, but in the absense of that, this at least improves on it a tiny bit. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-25Merge branch 'js/config-cb'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-13/+14
* js/config-cb: Provide git_config with a callback-data parameter Conflicts: builtin-add.c builtin-cat-file.c
2008-05-14Merge branch 'sb/committer'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+4
* sb/committer: commit: Show committer if automatic commit: Show author if different from committer Preparation to call determine_author_info from prepare_to_commit
2008-05-14Merge branch 'bd/tests'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* bd/tests: Rename the test trash directory to contain spaces. Fix tests breaking when checkout path contains shell metacharacters Don't use the 'export NAME=value' in the test scripts. lib-git-svn.sh: Fix quoting issues with paths containing shell metacharacters test-lib.sh: Fix some missing path quoting Use test_set_editor in t9001-send-email.sh test-lib.sh: Add a test_set_editor function to safely set $VISUAL git-send-email.perl: Handle shell metacharacters in $EDITOR properly config.c: Escape backslashes in section names properly git-rebase.sh: Fix --merge --abort failures when path contains whitespace Conflicts: t/t9115-git-svn-dcommit-funky-renames.sh
2008-05-14Provide git_config with a callback-data parameterLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-13/+14
git_config() only had a function parameter, but no callback data parameter. This assumes that all callback functions only modify global variables. With this patch, every callback gets a void * parameter, and it is hoped that this will help the libification effort. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-12Improve reporting of errors in config file routinesLibravatar Alex Riesen1-19/+16
Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-11Merge branch 'lt/core-optim'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
* lt/core-optim: Optimize symlink/directory detection Avoid some unnecessary lstat() calls is_racy_timestamp(): do not check timestamp for gitlinks diff-lib.c: rename check_work_tree_entity() diff: a submodule not checked out is not modified Add t7506 to test submodule related functions for git-status t4027: test diff for submodule with empty directory Make git-add behave more sensibly in a case-insensitive environment When adding files to the index, add support for case-independent matches Make unpack-tree update removed files before any updated files Make branch merging aware of underlying case-insensitive filsystems Add 'core.ignorecase' option Make hash_name_lookup able to do case-independent lookups Make "index_name_exists()" return the cache_entry it found Move name hashing functions into a file of its own Make unpack_trees_options bit flags actual bitfields
2008-05-11Allow tracking branches to set up rebase by default.Libravatar Dustin Sallings1-0/+15
Change cd67e4d4 introduced a new configuration parameter that told pull to automatically perform a rebase instead of a merge. This change provides a configuration option to enable this feature automatically when creating a new branch. If the variable branch.autosetuprebase applies for a branch that's being created, that branch will have branch.<name>.rebase set to true. Signed-off-by: Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-10Merge branch 'lt/case-insensitive'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
* lt/case-insensitive: Make git-add behave more sensibly in a case-insensitive environment When adding files to the index, add support for case-independent matches Make unpack-tree update removed files before any updated files Make branch merging aware of underlying case-insensitive filsystems Add 'core.ignorecase' option Make hash_name_lookup able to do case-independent lookups Make "index_name_exists()" return the cache_entry it found Move name hashing functions into a file of its own Make unpack_trees_options bit flags actual bitfields
2008-05-06commit: Show committer if automaticLibravatar Santi Béjar1-0/+4
To warn the user in case he/she might be using an unintended committer identity. Signed-off-by: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-05-05config.c: Escape backslashes in section names properlyLibravatar Bryan Donlan1-1/+1
If an element of the configuration key name other than the first or last contains a backslash, it is not escaped on output, but is treated as an escape sequence on input. Thus, the backslash is lost when re-loading the configuration. This patch corrects this by having backslashes escaped properly, and introduces a new test for this bug. Signed-off-by: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@fushizen.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-13Fix git_config_bool_or_intLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+2
The earlier one botched the return value logic between config_bool and config_bool_and_int. The former should normalize between 0 and 1 while the latter should give back full range of integer values. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-12git_config_bool_or_int()Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+9
This new function can be used by config parsers to tell if a variable is simply set, set to 1, or set to "true". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-04-09Add 'core.ignorecase' optionLibravatar Linus Torvalds1-0/+5
..and start using it for directory entry traversal (ie "git status" will not consider entries that match an existing entry case-insensitively to be a new file) Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-27Merge branch 'js/branch-track'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
* js/branch-track: doc: documentation update for the branch track changes branch: optionally setup branch.*.merge from upstream local branches Conflicts: Documentation/config.txt Documentation/git-branch.txt Documentation/git-checkout.txt builtin-branch.c cache.h t/t7201-co.sh
2008-02-20git_config_*: don't assume we are parsing a config fileLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+9
These functions get called by other code, including parsing config options from the command line. In that case, config_file_name is NULL, leading to an ugly message or even a segfault on some implementations of printf. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-19branch: optionally setup branch.*.merge from upstream local branchesLibravatar Jay Soffian1-0/+8
"git branch" and "git checkout -b" now honor --track option even when the upstream branch is local. Previously --track was silently ignored when forking from a local branch. Also the command did not error out when --track was explicitly asked for but the forked point specified was not an existing branch (i.e. when there is no way to set up the tracking configuration), but now it correctly does. The configuration setting branch.autosetupmerge can now be set to "always", which is equivalent to using --track from the command line. Setting branch.autosetupmerge to "true" will retain the former behavior of only setting up branch.*.merge for remote upstream branches. Includes test cases for the new functionality. Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-16Merge branch 'sp/safecrlf'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
* sp/safecrlf: safecrlf: Add mechanism to warn about irreversible crlf conversions
2008-02-16Merge branch 'jk/noetcconfig'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+18
* jk/noetcconfig: fix config reading in tests allow suppressing of global and system config Conflicts: cache.h
2008-02-16Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-31/+18
* maint: commit: discard index after setting up partial commit filter-branch: handle filenames that need quoting diff: Fix miscounting of --check output hg-to-git: fix parent analysis mailinfo: feed only one line to handle_filter() for QP input diff.c: add "const" qualifier to "char *cmd" member of "struct ll_diff_driver" Add "const" qualifier to "char *excludes_file". Add "const" qualifier to "char *editor_program". Add "const" qualifier to "char *pager_program". config: add 'git_config_string' to refactor string config variables. diff.c: remove useless check for value != NULL fast-import: check return value from unpack_entry() Validate nicknames of remote branches to prohibit confusing ones diff.c: replace a 'strdup' with 'xstrdup'. diff.c: fixup garding of config parser from value=NULL
2008-02-15Add "const" qualifier to "char *excludes_file".Libravatar Christian Couder1-6/+2
Also use "git_config_string" to simplify "config.c" code where "excludes_file" is set. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-15Add "const" qualifier to "char *editor_program".Libravatar Christian Couder1-6/+2
Also use "git_config_string" to simplify "config.c" code where "editor_program" is set. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-15Add "const" qualifier to "char *pager_program".Libravatar Christian Couder1-6/+2
Also use "git_config_string" to simplify "config.c" code where "pager_program" is set. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-15config: add 'git_config_string' to refactor string config variables.Libravatar Christian Couder1-13/+12
In many places we just check if a value from the config file is not NULL, then we duplicate it and return 0. This patch introduces the new 'git_config_string' function to do that. This function is also used to refactor some code in 'config.c'. Refactoring other files is left for other patches. Also not all the code in "config.c" is refactored, because the function takes a "const char **" as its first parameter, but in many places a "char *" is used instead of a "const char *". (And C does not allow using a "char **" instead of a "const char **" without a warning.) Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-11Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+29
* maint: (35 commits) config.c: guard config parser from value=NULL builtin-log.c: guard config parser from value=NULL imap-send.c: guard config parser from value=NULL wt-status.c: guard config parser from value=NULL setup.c: guard config parser from value=NULL remote.c: guard config parser from value=NULL merge-recursive.c: guard config parser from value=NULL http.c: guard config parser from value=NULL help.c: guard config parser from value=NULL git.c: guard config parser from value=NULL diff.c: guard config parser from value=NULL convert.c: guard config parser from value=NULL connect.c: guard config parser from value=NULL builtin-tag.c: guard config parser from value=NULL builtin-show-branch.c: guard config parser from value=NULL builtin-reflog.c: guard config parser from value=NULL builtin-log.c: guard config parser from value=NULL builtin-config.c: guard config parser from value=NULL builtin-commit.c: guard config parser from value=NULL builtin-branch.c: guard config parser from value=NULL ...
2008-02-11config.c: guard config parser from value=NULLLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+15
user.{name,email}, core.{pager,editor,excludesfile,whitespace} and i18n.{commit,logoutput}encoding all expect string values. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-11Add config_error_nonbool() helper functionLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+9
This is used to report misconfigured configuration file that does not give any value to a non-boolean variable, e.g. [section] var It is perfectly fine to say it if the section.var is a boolean (it means true), but if a variable expects a string value it should be flagged as a configuration error. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-10config: Fix --unset for continuation linesLibravatar Frank Lichtenheld1-0/+5
find_beginning_of_line didn't take into account that the previous line might have ended with \ in which case it shouldn't stop but continue its search. Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de> Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-06allow suppressing of global and system configLibravatar Jeff King1-2/+18
The GIT_CONFIG_NOGLOBAL and GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM environment variables are magic undocumented switches that can be used to ensure a totally clean environment. This is necessary for running reliable tests, since those config files may contain settings that change the outcome of tests. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-06safecrlf: Add mechanism to warn about irreversible crlf conversionsLibravatar Steffen Prohaska1-0/+9
CRLF conversion bears a slight chance of corrupting data. autocrlf=true will convert CRLF to LF during commit and LF to CRLF during checkout. A file that contains a mixture of LF and CRLF before the commit cannot be recreated by git. For text files this is the right thing to do: it corrects line endings such that we have only LF line endings in the repository. But for binary files that are accidentally classified as text the conversion can corrupt data. If you recognize such corruption early you can easily fix it by setting the conversion type explicitly in .gitattributes. Right after committing you still have the original file in your work tree and this file is not yet corrupted. You can explicitly tell git that this file is binary and git will handle the file appropriately. Unfortunately, the desired effect of cleaning up text files with mixed line endings and the undesired effect of corrupting binary files cannot be distinguished. In both cases CRLFs are removed in an irreversible way. For text files this is the right thing to do because CRLFs are line endings, while for binary files converting CRLFs corrupts data. This patch adds a mechanism that can either warn the user about an irreversible conversion or can even refuse to convert. The mechanism is controlled by the variable core.safecrlf, with the following values: - false: disable safecrlf mechanism - warn: warn about irreversible conversions - true: refuse irreversible conversions The default is to warn. Users are only affected by this default if core.autocrlf is set. But the current default of git is to leave core.autocrlf unset, so users will not see warnings unless they deliberately chose to activate the autocrlf mechanism. The safecrlf mechanism's details depend on the git command. The general principles when safecrlf is active (not false) are: - we warn/error out if files in the work tree can modified in an irreversible way without giving the user a chance to backup the original file. - for read-only operations that do not modify files in the work tree we do not not print annoying warnings. There are exceptions. Even though... - "git add" itself does not touch the files in the work tree, the next checkout would, so the safety triggers; - "git apply" to update a text file with a patch does touch the files in the work tree, but the operation is about text files and CRLF conversion is about fixing the line ending inconsistencies, so the safety does not trigger; - "git diff" itself does not touch the files in the work tree, it is often run to inspect the changes you intend to next "git add". To catch potential problems early, safety triggers. The concept of a safety check was originally proposed in a similar way by Linus Torvalds. Thanks to Dimitry Potapov for insisting on getting the naked LF/autocrlf=true case right. Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
2008-02-05Fix misuse of prefix_path()Libravatar Johannes Sixt1-4/+3
When DEFAULT_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR is specified as a relative path, init-db made it relative to exec_path using prefix_path(), which is wrong. prefix_path() is about a file inside the work tree. There was a similar misuse in config.c that takes relative ETC_GITCONFIG path. Noticed by Junio C Hamano. We concatenate the paths manually. (prefix_filename() won't do because it expects a prefix with a trailing '/'.) Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-03fix misuse of prefix_path()Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+3
When DEFAULT_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR is specified as a relative path, init-db made it relative to exec_path using prefix_path(), which is wrong. prefix_path() is about a file inside the work tree. There was a similar misuse in config.c that takes relative ETC_GITCONFIG path. A convenience function prefix_filename() can concatenate two paths to form a path that points at somewhere outside the work tree. Use it in these codepaths instead. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-16Improve use of lockfile APILibravatar Brandon Casey1-6/+2
Remove remaining double close(2)'s. i.e. close() before commit_locked_index() or commit_lock_file(). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-02config: handle lack of newline at end of file betterLibravatar Jeff King1-5/+9
The config parsing routines use the static global 'config_file' to store the FILE* pointing to the current config file being parsed. The function get_next_char() automatically converts an EOF on this file to a newline for the convenience of its callers, and it sets config_file to NULL to indicate that EOF was reached. This throws away useful information, though, since some routines want to call ftell on 'config_file' to find out exactly _where_ the routine ended. In the case of a key ending at EOF boundary, we ended up segfaulting in some cases (changing that key or adding another key in its section), or failing to provide the necessary newline (adding a new section). This patch adds a new flag to indicate EOF and uses that instead of setting config_file to NULL. It also makes sure to add newlines where necessary for truncated input. All three included tests fail without the patch. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-26Improve error messages when int/long cannot be parsed from configLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-10/+21
If a config file has become mildly corrupted due to a missing LF we may discover some other option joined up against the end of a numeric value. For example: [section] number = 1auto where the "auto" flag was meant to occur on the next line, below "number", but the missing LF has caused it to no longer be its own option. Instead the word "auto" is parsed as a 'unit factor' for the value of "number". Before this change we got the confusing error message: fatal: unknown unit: 'auto' which told us nothing about where the problem appeared. Now we get: fatal: bad config value for 'aninvalid.unit' which at least points the user in the right direction of where to search for the incorrectly formatted configuration file. Noticed by erikh on #git, which received the original error from a simple `git checkout -b` due to a midly corrupted config. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-14Use a strbuf for building up section header and key/value pair strings.Libravatar Kristian Høgsberg1-53/+38
Avoids horrible 1-byte write(2) calls and cleans up the logic a bit. Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-09Merge branch 'jc/spht'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
* jc/spht: Use gitattributes to define per-path whitespace rule core.whitespace: documentation updates. builtin-apply: teach whitespace_rules builtin-apply: rename "whitespace" variables and fix styles core.whitespace: add test for diff whitespace error highlighting git-diff: complain about >=8 consecutive spaces in initial indent War on whitespace: first, a bit of retreat. Conflicts: cache.h config.c diff.c
2007-12-09Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+8
* maint: config.c:store_write_pair(): don't read the byte before a malloc'd buffer.
2007-12-08config.c:store_write_pair(): don't read the byte before a malloc'd buffer.Libravatar Jim Meyering1-2/+8
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-12-06Use gitattributes to define per-path whitespace ruleLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-49/+1
The `core.whitespace` configuration variable allows you to define what `diff` and `apply` should consider whitespace errors for all paths in the project (See gitlink:git-config[1]). This attribute gives you finer control per path. For example, if you have these in the .gitattributes: frotz whitespace nitfol -whitespace xyzzy whitespace=-trailing all types of whitespace problems known to git are noticed in path 'frotz' (i.e. diff shows them in diff.whitespace color, and apply warns about them), no whitespace problem is noticed in path 'nitfol', and the default types of whitespace problems except "trailing whitespace" are noticed for path 'xyzzy'. A project with mixed Python and C might want to have: *.c whitespace *.py whitespace=-indent-with-non-tab in its toplevel .gitattributes file. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-11-16core.excludesfile clean-upLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+7
There are inconsistencies in the way commands currently handle the core.excludesfile configuration variable. The problem is the variable is too new to be noticed by anything other than git-add and git-status. * git-ls-files does not notice any of the "ignore" files by default, as it predates the standardized set of ignore files. The calling scripts established the convention to use .git/info/exclude, .gitignore, and later core.excludesfile. * git-add and git-status know about it because they call add_excludes_from_file() directly with their own notion of which standard set of ignore files to use. This is just a stupid duplication of code that need to be updated every time the definition of the standard set of ignore files is changed. * git-read-tree takes --exclude-per-directory=<gitignore>, not because the flexibility was needed. Again, this was because the option predates the standardization of the ignore files. * git-merge-recursive uses hardcoded per-directory .gitignore and nothing else. git-clean (scripted version) does not honor core.* because its call to underlying ls-files does not know about it. git-clean in C (parked in 'pu') doesn't either. We probably could change git-ls-files to use the standard set when no excludes are specified on the command line and ignore processing was asked, or something like that, but that will be a change in semantics and might break people's scripts in a subtle way. I am somewhat reluctant to make such a change. On the other hand, I think it makes perfect sense to fix git-read-tree, git-merge-recursive and git-clean to follow the same rule as other commands. I do not think of a valid use case to give an exclude-per-directory that is nonstandard to read-tree command, outside a "negative" test in the t1004 test script. This patch is the first step to untangle this mess. The next step would be to teach read-tree, merge-recursive and clean (in C) to use setup_standard_excludes(). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>