2015-04-29 15:09 GMT+02:00 Peter Ansell <ansell.pe...@gmail.com>: > On 29 April 2015 at 22:52, James Carman <ja...@carmanconsulting.com> > wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 7:37 AM Jörg Schaible > >> > >> > >> But then you rely on the fact, that everyone has such a setting. I've > >> already seen pull requests containing such files. It does not happen if > the > >> .gitignore is local. > >> > >> > > I'm with Jörg on this one. Having a .gitignore file in the repo is the > > standard way most folks do it. You can't rely upon (nor should you) > > everyone having their global .gitignore file set up properly. Just > include > > one in the repo and be done with it. > > +1 for a local .gitignore file. The list very rarely grows, and there > are templates available to copy and paste out of if you want to build > up a decent coverage straight up. For example, the following can be > combined to get Maven, Eclipse and IntelliJ coverage: >
I'm not saying we should remove the file. :-) BTW: A nice tool for generating gitignore is gibo [1] Benedikt [1] https://github.com/simonwhitaker/gibo > > https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Maven.gitignore > > https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Global/Eclipse.gitignore > > https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Global/JetBrains.gitignore > > Cheers, > > Peter > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- http://people.apache.org/~britter/ http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter http://github.com/britter