Desire

A while ago, I had the strong desire to partition some of my professional work logs into mutually exclusive git repositories: with Blacklists and Whitelists flipped.

I was aware that the .gitignore could ignore stuff; today I found out that I can also whitelist stuff via that.

checkout ¹ this stackoverflow question

So if the first .gitignore looks like

asdf-pattern 
more-asdf
some-absolute-asdf
dir-asdf/

the second one would look like:

# blacklist everything first
*

# unignore the directories to capture nested existences
!*/

# then your usual unignores
!asdf-pattern
!more-asdf
!some-absoluete-asdf
!dir-asdf/

What I wonder now is if git would allow for a branch-contextual .gitignore (named with certain protocols) so that I don’t have to maintain two different repositories altogether.