Gentoo Archives: gentoo-catalyst

From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@×××××××.us>
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Re: [PATCH 3/5] Add more working files, directories to .gitignore
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 15:32:52
Message-Id: 20140305153246.GG25297@odin.tremily.us
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Re: [PATCH 3/5] Add more working files, directories to .gitignore by Brian Dolbec
1 On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 09:17:42PM -0800, Brian Dolbec wrote:
2 > On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 20:50:38 -0800, W. Trevor King wrote:
3 > > On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 03:01:00PM -0800, Brian Dolbec wrote:
4 > > These all look like entries for a local $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, instead
5 > > of the shared, in-tree .gitignore, since they're specific to your
6 > > workflow and not catalyst or it's build process.
7 >
8 > Yes, they are. I've never professed to be a git "expert"
9 > Please enlighten me on that. It's annoying trying to wade through
10 > all those files making commits.
11
12 The “DESCRIPTION” section of gitignore(5) goes through it pretty
13 clearly [1]. $GIT_DIR/info/exclude (likely
14 ~/src/catalyst/.git/info/exclude or similar for you) has the same
15 syntax as .gitignore, but it's not versioned. gitignore(5) recommends
16 it for [1]:
17
18 Patterns which are specific to a particular repository but which do
19 not need to be shared with other related repositories (e.g.,
20 auxiliary files that live inside the repository but are specific to
21 one user’s workflow)
22
23 Cheers,
24 Trevor
25
26 [1]: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitignore.html
27
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