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From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
To: Sebastian Schubert <schubert.seb@googlemail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: more fancy ignoring of files ('if' in .gitignore?)
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:00:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AE6C4BB.5060403@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910271030.54571.schubert.seb@googlemail.com>

On 10/27/2009 10:30 AM, Sebastian Schubert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to ignore files if certain other files are present. In my
> special case, I want to ignore foo.pdf and foo.eps if foo.fig is
> present (both pdf and eps are generated on the fly but don't belong
> into repository). In general, I do NOT want to ignore pdf or eps. There
> are a lot of foos so I would like to have a general solution.
>
> Is this possible?

I suggesting adding to your makefile a rule like

.gitignore: $(wildcard *.fig)
	(grep -ve \.pdf$ \.eps$ .gitignore;
	for i in $^; do echo $i; done | \
		sed -n 's/fig$/eps/p; s/eps$/pdf/p') > .gitignore.tmp
	mv .gitignore.tmp .gitignore

Paolo

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-27 10:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-27  9:30 more fancy ignoring of files ('if' in .gitignore?) Sebastian Schubert
2009-10-27  9:56 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-10-27 10:00 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]

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