After I did an out-of-tree build of idutils from git.savannah.gnu.org, I ended up with a bunch of generated files that git wasn't sure what to do with, so I added them to .gitignore.
It seems like the 'm4' directory is entirely created by gnulib(?), so I added the whole directory. If it helps, this patch is the sole commit on the 'gitignore' branch of this git repository: git://github.com/jimblandy/idutils.git commit 63b956caa5bfaf52f6865e32739b1cab5a8610e1 Author: Jim Blandy <j...@red-bean.com> Date: Thu Sep 13 11:21:08 2012 -0700 Update .gitignore for files added by build. diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index ef49d35..6558547 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ /build-aux /config.cache /gnulib-tests/.gitignore +/gnulib-tests/Makefile.in +/gnulib-tests/glthread/ /gnulib-tests/test-* /gnulib-tests/uniwidth /idutils-*.tar.xz @@ -26,33 +28,49 @@ config.log config.status configure doc/*.info +doc/.gitignore +doc/Makefile.in doc/stamp-vti doc/version.texi idutils.spec lib/.cvsignore lib/.gitignore +lib/Makefile.in lib/charset.alias lib/configmake.h lib/libgnu.a lib/stamp-h1 lib/uniwidth +libidu/Makefile.in libidu/libidu.a +lisp/Makefile.in lisp/elc-stamp lisp/idutils.elc -m4/.gitignore +m4/ maint.mk man/*.1 +man/Makefile.in po/*.gmo po/*.po po/.gitignore po/.reference po/LINGUAS po/Makefile.in +po/Makefile.in.in po/Makevars +po/Makevars.template po/POTFILES +po/Rules-quot +po/boldquot.sed po/coreutils.pot +po/en@boldquot.header +po/en@quot.header po/idutils.pot +po/insert-header.sin +po/quot.sed +po/remove-potcdate.sin po/stamp-po +src/Makefile.in src/aid src/eid src/fid @@ -62,3 +80,4 @@ src/lid src/mkid src/xtokid testsuite/ID +testsuite/Makefile.in _______________________________________________ bug-idutils mailing list bug-idutils@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-idutils