Re: gitignore

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:34, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
> Le 24/09/2010 10:23, Magnus Hagander a écrit :
>> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:17, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> wrote:
>>> I was reading pgsql-hackers this morning while waiting for my
>>> colleagues. There's an interesting thread on gitignore files. Right now,
>>> when you grab a git branch, bootstrap it, configure it and make it, "git
>>> status" shows a lot of uninteresting files. A .gitignore file would help
>>> to notice changed files. I've come with the file attached, but would
>>> like to get comments on this.
>>
>> Haven't looked at the contents of the file, but definitely +1 on the
>> concept in genereal (probably not surprising, since I did the same
>> thing for the postgresql repo :P)
>>
>
> Yeah, I took a look at the mail where you show all the changes done, and
> I worked from this. I have one question about it. There is many
> .gitignore files. Why not a single one?  what are the advantages of the
> multi-file way?

That you'll always find the local targets in the directory you're
currently working, and when you need to add a new one, you do it next
to the file where it was done.

That was actually discussed in the thread on -hackers :P

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