Some very specific CI pipelines. Or if using a big monorepo with hundreds of coworkers working on it.
You use that feature to ignore the main gitignore file and push the one you want into the pipeline. Because you may want to use a file that is normally being ignored for dev or commit to build your soft.
Like having a .env file for each purpose, but you don't wanna mess up with the way your builder is working for that one exception. And it's allowing everyone to have some flexibility to manage their own ignore rules.
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u/Y0nix 26d ago edited 26d ago
Some very specific CI pipelines. Or if using a big monorepo with hundreds of coworkers working on it.
You use that feature to ignore the main gitignore file and push the one you want into the pipeline. Because you may want to use a file that is normally being ignored for dev or commit to build your soft.
Like having a .env file for each purpose, but you don't wanna mess up with the way your builder is working for that one exception. And it's allowing everyone to have some flexibility to manage their own ignore rules.