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From: Lowell Gilbert <kludge@be-well.ilk.org>
To: xenomai@xenomai.org
Subject: Re: [Xenomai] [Xenomai-git] Jan Kiszka : Create gitignore for autotools files
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 09:38:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44384kklz4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150401125148.GA29467@hermes.click-hack.org> (Gilles Chanteperdrix's message of "Wed, 1 Apr 2015 14:51:48 +0200")

Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org> writes:

> I am not sure having a gitignore file in the repository is a good
> idea, for instance, it will conflict with the gitignore I already
> had, because not using the same autotools version as Philippe, my
> git status was already filled with tons of autotools files without a
> gitignore and before they were removed from the repository. I also
> like to add files to gitignore like *~ my editor creates, and so if
> my gitignore has local modifications, I will see it in the git
> status too.

While I do not support adding gitignore to repositories, I suggest that
these particular issues are more easily handled with methods that cover
multiple work trees. In these examples, .git/info/exclude and
.config/git/ignore respectively.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-04-01 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1YdHjz-0005Rv-A3@sd-51317.xenomai.org>
2015-04-01 12:51 ` [Xenomai] [Xenomai-git] Jan Kiszka : Create gitignore for autotools files Gilles Chanteperdrix
2015-04-01 12:58   ` Philippe Gerum
2015-04-01 14:26     ` Jan Kiszka
2015-04-01 16:20       ` Philippe Gerum
2015-04-01 16:30         ` Jan Kiszka
2015-04-01 17:19           ` Philippe Gerum
2015-04-01 18:06             ` Jan Kiszka
2015-04-02  8:56               ` Gilles Chanteperdrix
2015-04-02  9:32                 ` Jan Kiszka
2015-04-02 11:42                   ` Gilles Chanteperdrix
2015-04-01 19:49           ` Lennart Sorensen
2015-04-02  8:38             ` Gilles Chanteperdrix
2015-04-02 17:49               ` Lennart Sorensen
2015-04-01 13:38   ` Lowell Gilbert [this message]
2015-04-01 14:24     ` Jan Kiszka

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