Re: [TopGit PATCH] .gitignore += vim swap files

[Kirill Smelkov <kirr@landau.phys.spbu.ru>]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 09:51:25AM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Kirill Smelkov wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 09:10:24AM +0200, Bert Wesarg wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 07:06, Kirill Smelkov <kirr@landau.phys.spbu.ru> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 03:30:35PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Bert Wesarg wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 18:29, Kirill Smelkov <kirr@landau.phys.spbu.ru> wrote:
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@landau.phys.spbu.ru>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>  .gitignore |    2 ++
>>>>>>>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
>>>>>>> index 8868f2d..aa39db4 100644
>>>>>>> --- a/.gitignore
>>>>>>> +++ b/.gitignore
>>>>>>> @@ -18,3 +18,5 @@ tg-import.txt
>>>>>>>  tg-remote
>>>>>>>  tg-remote.txt
>>>>>>>  tg
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> +*.swp
>>>>>> can't you do this in your .git/info/excludes?
>>>>> It's generally better to put a core.excludesfile entry in your
>>>>> ~/.gitconfig pointing to a ignore file with editor temporaries for the
>>>>> editor(s) you personally use. This will then apply to all git projects you
>>>>> work on.
>>>> Yes, this makes sense, thanks.
>>>>
>>>> I've had to add the following to my ~/.gitconfig
>>>>
>>>> [core]
>>>>    excludesfile= /home/kirr/.gitignore-kirr
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> because it does not work when '~' is used for $HOME
>>>>
>>>> [core]
>>>>    excludesfile= ~/.gitignore-kirr # does not work
>>> Have you tried:
>>>
>>>   [core]
>>>      excludesfile = .gitignore-kirr
>>> There was a discussion about relative files in config. but I didn't tried this.
>>
>> It does not work for me -- it picks ./.gitignore-kirr instead of
>> ~/.gitignore-kirr
>>
>>> Anyway, I think this is the best solution. Don't globber the repos with this.
>>
>> Don't you care more about machines than humans? :)
>>
>> I think when we work on a tree, all the autogenerated files should be
>> ignored. This includes *.o and friends for sure, but since we also use
>> editors, and most people use same editors it makes sense to tune repo to
>> be ready to hack on with common setups.
>>
>
> Most people do not use same editors. In our office there's 8 programmers
> and 6 editors in use (geany, jed, vim, nedit, zend studio, kate).
>
>> And I think this
>>
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=7088655477b51a5a248fa54190388e1283ba7ebf
>>
>> just justifies my words.
>>
>
> If topgit had 4374 contributors since 10 minor versions back, I'd be
> more inclined to agree with you. Even so, you'll have to accept that
> this patch gets dropped[1] and stop trying to argue for it after it's
> already been discussed (at length).
>
> [1]
> I'm not too sure who the topgit maintainer actually is, but the majority
> seem to be against this patch.

I'm ok with this patch being dropped.

-- 
    Всего хорошего, Кирилл.