Probably. I simply redirected the output of 'git status' and manually sorted them into the directories.
However why is a slash prefix a good idea? — Sent from Mailbox On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:52 AM, Ángel González <[email protected]> wrote: > Darshit Shah wrote: >> Hi, >> >> When building the repository sources, a large number of files are >> autogenerated and hence are not version controlled in git. >> However, all these files pollute the output of commands like `git >> status`. The only way around it is to place all the autogenerated >> files in a single .gitignore file and share it with the repository >> itself. >> >> I've compiled a .gitignore that can be used in Wget's repository. This >> file ignores all the autogenerated files due to bootstrap, configure, >> make and make check. >> On top of it, I've also ignored some extra files like tags and >> cscope.out which I assume a lot of developers are probably using. I've >> attached the file for everyone's convenience here. Maybe we can ship >> this file with the sources itself? > +1 > But I would prefix with a slash the files in the Project Root.
