From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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To: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: .gitignore files, take two |
Date: | 2010-09-21 15:35:28 |
Message-ID: | 4C98D0C0.5060909@dunslane.net |
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On 09/21/2010 11:20 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> 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.
>
FWIW, the buildfarm's git mode does not rely on ignore files any more,
unlike what we had for CVS. This came about after I followed up on a
suggestion Robert made at pgCon to use "git clean".
cheers
andrew
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