From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <551BEB62.7030901@xenomai.org> Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 14:58:10 +0200 From: Philippe Gerum MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20150401125148.GA29467@hermes.click-hack.org> In-Reply-To: <20150401125148.GA29467@hermes.click-hack.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Gilles Chanteperdrix , xenomai@xenomai.org On 04/01/2015 02:51 PM, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 02:27:27PM +0200, git repository hosting wrote: >> Module: xenomai-jki >> Branch: for-forge >> Commit: 519962c23a696aba736d8b535c8f1a00382dae8b >> URL: http://git.xenomai.org/?p=xenomai-jki.git;a=commit;h=519962c23a696aba736d8b535c8f1a00382dae8b >> >> Author: Jan Kiszka >> Date: Wed Apr 1 14:25:42 2015 +0200 >> >> Create gitignore for autotools files >> >> This avoids filling up "git status" with tones of autotools files that >> are now locally maintained. > > 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. > I'd rather refrain from forcing .gitignore on users too, what to filter out should remain a local policy. However, we could provide a sane default template for this file if that helps, e.g. scripts/gitignore.dot. -- Philippe.