| From: | Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Victor Wagner <vitus(at)wagner(dot)pp(dot)ru> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: What .gitignore files do in the tarball? |
| Date: | 2015-11-25 13:40:20 |
| Message-ID: | CAB7nPqSY68ZhPMV4v6JQ9ncV=4F-_-irU9yCZX2nKhgSEW2O3Q@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Victor Wagner <vitus(at)wagner(dot)pp(dot)ru> wrote:
> I've noticed that source distribution archive of the postgresql contain
> more than hundred of .gitignore files and one .gitattributes.
>
> Is it just a bug nobody bothered to fix, or these files can make
> any sense outside git repository?
>
They are harmless and do not consume that much space in a tarball, contrary
to .git/ which has the whole history of the repository. And this behavior
matches for example git-archive. Keeping them also has the advantage to
allow people to deploy a tarball easily in an orphan branch of a fresh git
repository. In a couple of companies where people can just work from
tarballs (this exists and I know some), that's actually useful to keep them.
--
Michael
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