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Subject: Re: [Xenomai] [Xenomai-git] Jan Kiszka : Create gitignore for
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To: Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>, Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>, xenomai@xenomai.org

On 2015-04-01 14:58, Philippe Gerum wrote:
> 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 <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
>>> 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.

See "man gitignore" for the common policy: .gitignore is already that
baseline we want to distribute.

Jan

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