# HG changeset patch
# User Jeff Hammel <jhammel@mozilla.com>
# Date 1302197007 25200
# Node ID e12176a453e4182cf6c52ccea0590c12f16a398f
# Parent  a612a16f11a776ca034ec8b52123d6a1ec1f3c07
note git global ignore silliness

diff -r a612a16f11a7 -r e12176a453e4 python/install_config.py
--- a/python/install_config.py	Wed Mar 30 13:25:36 2011 -0700
+++ b/python/install_config.py	Thu Apr 07 10:23:27 2011 -0700
@@ -69,3 +69,6 @@
 PACKAGES="unison fluxbox antiword xclip graphviz python-dev python-lxml"
 print "Ensure the following packages are installed:"
 print "sudo apt-get install $PACKAGES"
+
+# setup git's global ignore, since git is silly about this and doesn't look for the file in the right place
+subprocess.call('if which git; then git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore; fi', shell=True)