On 9 August 2015 at 18:50, Peter Kelly <pmke...@apache.org> wrote: > > 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... > well to be honest, I was not thinking. After having removed some, I simply did "git clone" in a new directory, a lot easier
> > >> 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. > No problem with me....but I do have a big problem adding msc files, because that is a real error, and should never happen. I am also strongly against adding directories like "externals". I have f.x. build.win32 build.win64 build.ubuntu build.xcode Should I also add those to .gitignore and bother everyone else. just my 2ct rgds jan i. > > — > 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) > >
