Re: Git BOF notes

[Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>]

Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:

> > Usually I start small projects as a single .c or .java file. Only after a 
> > while, I think it is worth it to init a git database. So, I _always_ have 
> > generated files lying around. And I would hate it if they were checked in 
> > automatically. (Yeah, I could remove them, _then_ remove them from the 
> > index, and then git-commit --amend. Ugly.)
> 
> Can't you just do make clean before git init? Or you can prepare
> .gitignore before you check stuff in, so that the autogenerated files
> don't pollute your git status output. ;-)

I like git init-db as it is now.  I don't want it to automatically add
files.  GIT does what you ask it to do, not what it _thinks_ you want to
do.

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