yadmignore

[xenoterracide]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I don't care for yadm sharing a configuration with gitignore this has caused some heartburn for me in software development because a global gitignore is also used for all of my repo's, and there are patterns both directions I'd rather not apply, and those that I'd like to share. Related (but not the only issue) #355

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like to see a ~/.config/yadm/ignore file introduced, so I can keep them separate. Also possibly a ~/.yadmignore although I'm less enthusiastic about that, but I speculate it'd be easier to template that one, so that my ignores can share code, but not be the same.

I think this feature should also include a configuration option to disable respecting gitignore.

note: a global gitignore can also live at ~/.config/git/ignore now.

Other options

I don't consider the documented exclude file a great option because the global git ignore is still respected, and I'd speculate this particular file based on it's location either isn't yadm trackable or that's probably not a great idea to store it in yadm, you probably could, but probably not a great idea.

Additional context

bash version 5.2.37(1)-release
 git version 2.46.1
yadm version 3.2.2

[erijo]

Have you considered setting core.excludesFile in ~/.gitconfig using includeIf? Something like the following:

# In ~/.gitconfig
[includeIf "gitdir:~/.local/share/yadm/repo.git"]
  path = .config/yadm/config

Then set core.excludesFile:

yadm config core.excludesFile '~/.config/yadm/ignore'

[xenoterracide]

I didn't know there was such a thing as includeIf, learning about all the new features of git lately. Apparently I haven't been keeping up since 1.0. I'll try giving that a go soon(tm) where soon for me seems to take months :/ but this is less effort than some. although my git config has moved to ~/.config/git/config already.

[erijo]

I'm closing this issue for now. Feel free to reopen it if needed.