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  Re: add generated files to .gitignore don fong <dfong@dfong.com> - 2018-02-24 12:36 -0800

#13740 — Re: add generated files to .gitignore

Eric, thanks for the tip.

my feeling is that regardless of whether these files are pushed, they
clutter up the "git status" listing after i've done a build.



On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 11:28 AM, Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 02/24/2018 01:26 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
>>
>> On 2/24/18 1:46 AM, don fong wrote:
>>>
>>> based on my experience creating one patch, running "make" and "make
>>> test", i found that "git status" was reporting a lot of generated and
>>> built files that i think should be ignored.
>>
>>
>> Those files aren't ever pushed to the bash git repositories (master,
>> devel).
>
>
> If Chet doesn't want to patch the primary bash.git to ignore them for
> everybody in .gitignore, you can still patch your downstream repo to ignore
> them locally by instead adding those exclusions to .git/info/exclude.
>
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> Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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