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Owen O'Malley commented on HADOOP-4181:
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Are you using an old version of git?
>From http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitignore.html:
{quote}
If the pattern ends with a slash, it is removed for the purpose of the
following description, but it would only find a match with a directory. In
other words, foo/ will match a directory foo and paths underneath it, but will
not match a regular file or a symbolic link foo (this is consistent with the
way how pathspec works in general in git).
{quote}
So my version will not ignore a build script that someone adds, or build
directories somewhere else in the directory tree. I think being more precise is
a good thing when we are specifying things to be ignored by scm.
> some minor things to make Hadoop friendlier to git
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HADOOP-4181
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4181
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: build
> Reporter: Owen O'Malley
> Assignee: Owen O'Malley
> Fix For: 0.19.0
>
> Attachments: .gitignore, git.patch, git.patch, git.patch, git2.patch,
> git3.patch, git4.patch
>
>
> It would be nice to have a .gitignore file and a saveVersion that didn't fail
> under git.
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