From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 10:38:27 +0200 From: Gilles Chanteperdrix Message-ID: <20150402083827.GA31175@hermes.click-hack.org> References: <20150401125148.GA29467@hermes.click-hack.org> <551BEB62.7030901@xenomai.org> <551C0025.5090908@siemens.com> <551C1AC9.1060109@xenomai.org> <551C1D2C.2060303@siemens.com> <20150401194928.GS29558@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150401194928.GS29558@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Subject: Re: [Xenomai] [Xenomai-git] Jan Kiszka : Create gitignore for autotools files List-Id: Discussions about the Xenomai project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Lennart Sorensen Cc: Jan Kiszka , xenomai@xenomai.org On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 03:49:28PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 06:30:36PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: > > By pulling everything that autoconf generates out of the repo, forcing > > the user of the git version to generate them yourself, you effectively > > made those files build outputs. As we cannot store them out-of-tree > > (like object files), we have to ignore them in-tree. > > Certainly having them in .gitignore is a handy way to avoid them > accidentally being commited again, if someone has a habbit of doing git > commit -a. git commit -a does not automatically add files to the repository. At least not with the default configuration. Besides, nobody in this thread is against the use of a .gitignore. -- Gilles.