Re: jgit and ignore

[Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Tor Arne Vestbø <torarnv@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jon Smirl wrote:
>> I have a C/C++ perspective open right now. Navigator is on the left,
>> editor in the middle, outline on the right. In the navigator there are
>> several files that should be ignored. I'd like to right click on them
>> and select team/ignore. When I do that they will be ignored in git and
>> also disappear from my navigator.
>
> That would be Team->Add to .gitignore, as Eclipse does not have a way to
> add files to the global ignore from context menus, but I agree, we
> should have something like that eventually.
>
> If we were to also remove ignored files from the views we would have to
> either add a View Filter for .git-ignored files, or for globally ignored
> files. Good idea for enhancement, please report in the issue tracker:
>
>    http://code.google.com/p/egit/issues/
>
>> I also don't like how I have a global .git for all of my projects
>> instead of a .git for each project individually. (Did I select that
>> when I first installed egit and didn't know what I was doing?) Now I'm
>> in a mess and can't publish individual projects.
>
> That's a result of choosing "Create repository in project's parent
> directory" when you shared the project in Eclipse.
>
> Perhaps we should try to detect if the project is a Java (/JDT) project,
> or otherwise likely to be a "child"-project, where it makes sense to
> have the repository in the parent directory?

My .git got created in my workspace root. Is there ever a case where
you would want .git in your workspace root? If not, remove this choice
when the parent directory is the workspace root.

>
> Tor Arne
>
>



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Jon Smirl
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