Re: [Bug-tar] --exclude-vcs-ignores does not read .gitignore files from parent directories

[Michal Novotny]

n Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 4:30 PM Pavel Raiskup <address@hidden> wrote:

On Monday, July 30, 2018 3:04:06 PM CEST Michal Novotny wrote:
> Can I at least make tar (by passing some additional arguments) take the
> parent .gitignores into consideration?

I don't like that idea; IMO GNU tar should rely on /bin/git to interpret
gitignore ('git check-ignore').

Thanks for the tip about 'git check-ignore'. I didn't know about it.

clime

 

> Is there a summary, how tar's support for .gitignore files differs from
> git's native implementation?

I don't think there's such documentation, see also:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2016-12/msg00001.html

Pavel