Re: .gitignore files, take two

On 21/09/10 18:02, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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".

Agreed. It's not a big deal though, until now I've just always used "git
status | less" and scrolled up to the beginning, ignoring the chatter.

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