> On 9 Aug 2015, at 11:26 pm, jan i <j...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 9 August 2015 at 18:11, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> > wrote: > >> I notice that files ending in "~" can show up in the repository. These >> are usually local backups of files that have been edited and should not be >> in the repository. >> > That is correct, I spent time removing them in the source zip.
That doesn’t sound like a fun... >> I also notice that the .gitignore does not eliminate other artifacts that >> are not needed in the repository. I have updated the .gitignore (on >> master, at least) to ignore more cases of artifacts that may arise in >> editing and building but that are not part of the repository or released >> code. Some of this may simply be valuable as documentation for what we >> keep out of the repository in direct form. >> > I tend to disagree here. When I edit I also do the cleanup, if we add too > much to .gitignore it just becomes more complex to isolate the actual > source. > > I will not veto that it is being done, but just state that I am not happy > with it. I think we should have a few more standard entries in there, including files ending in ~, given that these tend to show up a lot. There was actually a number of entries in .gitignore that got removed somewhere along the way which I only noticed recently. I added the notorious .DS_Store files which OS X loves to spray everywhere. — Dr Peter M. Kelly pmke...@apache.org PGP key: http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key <http://www.kellypmk.net/pgp-key> (fingerprint 5435 6718 59F0 DD1F BFA0 5E46 2523 BAA1 44AE 2966)
