Re: .gitignore files, take two

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> On tis, 2010-09-21 at 00:00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> 3. What are the ignore filesets *for*, in particular should they list
>> just the derived files expected in a distribution tarball, or all the
>> files in the set of build products in a normal build?

> My personal vote: Forget the whole thing.

The folks who are more familiar with git than I seem to be pretty clear
that we need to ignore all build products. I don't think that "ignore
nothing" is going to work pleasantly at all. On reflection I realize
that cvs ignore and git ignore are considerably different because they
come into play at different times: cvs ignore really only matters while
doing "cvs update" to pull in new code, while git ignore matters while
you're constructing a commit. So you really do need git ignore to
ignore all build products; otherwise you'll have lots of chatter in
"git status".

regards, tom lane