Opened 12 years ago
Closed 12 years ago
#4524 enhancement closed wontfix (wontfix)
Git: Ignore generated files and directories
| Reported by: | Carlos Valiente | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | lowest | Milestone: | |
| Component: | core | Keywords: | |
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Description
It would be nice to add a .gitignore file at the top-level directory, so that generated files and directories like /build/, MANIFEST and all the *.pyc do not appear in the output of git status.
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Changed 12 years ago by
| Attachment: | 0001-Git-Ignore-generated-files.patch added |
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comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by
| Keywords: | review added |
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comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by
Hmm. Considering we don't even configure svn to ignore these, I wonder if we should start configuring alternate vcs mirrors to ignore them.
comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by
To expand on my previous comment, in svn this is easily addressed on a per-user basis, in ~/.subversion/config, with skips defined to suite personal tastes. So it doesn't cause problems for people using svn. Does it cause problems for git? I don't know how ignores work in git.
comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by
You can create a per-user .gitignore file by first running: git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore. See: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitignore.html
comment:5 Changed 12 years ago by
| Owner: | Glyph deleted |
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comment:6 Changed 12 years ago by
| Keywords: | review removed |
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| Resolution: | → wontfix |
| Status: | new → closed |
Thanks cyli. I think that means we should leave this alone. I'll add a link to that page to the mirrors wiki page so people know that's what we expect them to use.
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