So can some kind git master tell me how git ignore works? I went from being 
able to use git status to having a mess in one day :-)

Jody

On 14/09/2010, at 5:42 AM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:

> Done.
> 
> I have removed .gitignore on trunk/2.6.x in r36193/r36194.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Ben.
> 
> On 09/09/10 17:27, Jesse Eichar wrote:
>> Go crazy.  I didn't commit it intentionally and I agree with your arguments
>> 
>> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Ben 
>> Caradoc-Davies<ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au>  wrote:
>> Jesse, you created this file, so I thought I'd check with you before we blow 
>> it away!
>> 
>> Objections?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Ben.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 08/09/10 15:46, Justin Deoliveira wrote:
>> +1
>> 
>> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Ben 
>> Caradoc-Davies<ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au>   wrote:
>> I would like to remove .gitignore from GeoTools trunk and 2.6.x.
>> 
>> Justin (see below) reports that, for GeoServer, he prefers to not have 
>> .gitignore in the repo. Sounds like some other developers do the same.
>> 
>> Keeping .gitignore in the repo reminds me of keeping .project and .classpath 
>> in the repo: it seemed like a good idea at the time but it breaks separation 
>> of concerns and there are other ways of doing it.
>> 
>> If you have .gitignore under version control, you can't have a local 
>> customisation, because having .gitignore in your .gitignore is ignored if 
>> .gitignore is already in the index. (Parse that if you can!) This is a 
>> problem if you are building crufty unsupported modules that nobody else 
>> builds that dump junk outside target. Not to mention adding a new IDE that 
>> has different cruft. Netbeans, anyone? Or Thumbs.db wherever there are 
>> images, for Windows. In each case, .gitignore accumulates cruft and via the 
>> repo transmits it to the entire community. Nobody will remove cruft because 
>> nobody knows what tools are still in use by developers.
>> 
>> So, can I remove .gitignore from GeoTools trunk and 2.6.x?
>> 
>> (Gabriel, I'll leave the one in arcsde datastore for you to deal with.)
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> Ben.
>> 
>> 
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: [Geoserver-devel] .gitignore
>> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:44:28 +0800
>> From: David 
>> Winslow<dwins...@opengeo.org<mailto:dwins...@opengeo.org><mailto:dwins...@opengeo.org<mailto:dwins...@opengeo.org>>>
>> To: Justin 
>> Deoliveira<jdeol...@opengeo.org<mailto:jdeol...@opengeo.org><mailto:jdeol...@opengeo.org<mailto:jdeol...@opengeo.org>>>
>> CC: 
>> geoserver-de...@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:geoserver-de...@lists.sourceforge.net><mailto:geoserver-de...@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:geoserver-de...@lists.sourceforge.net>>
>>    
>> <geoserver-de...@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:geoserver-de...@lists.sourceforge.net><mailto:geoserver-de...@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:geoserver-de...@lists.sourceforge.net>>>,
>>  Andrea 
>> Aime<aa...@opengeo.org<mailto:aa...@opengeo.org><mailto:aa...@opengeo.org<mailto:aa...@opengeo.org>>>
>> 
>> I just added .gitignore to my .gitignore.  No major issues after initial 
>> setup, except every once in a while I issue "git clean -dxf" (removes 
>> non-versioned files from the working dir, leave out the 'x' to leave ignored 
>> files alone) and blow away my ignore rules.
>> 
>> --
>> David Winslow
>> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/
>> 
>> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Justin 
>> Deoliveira<jdeol...@opengeo.org<mailto:jdeol...@opengeo.org><mailto:jdeol...@opengeo.org<mailto:jdeol...@opengeo.org>><mailto:jdeol...@opengeo.org<mailto:jdeol...@opengeo.org><mailto:jdeol...@opengeo.org<mailto:jdeol...@opengeo.org>>>>
>>    wrote:
>> 
>> I have found that having a .gitignore under version control is problematic. 
>> In all my git repos i try to ensure it is not udner version control. The 
>> reason being is because i started committing to it and the changes get piled 
>> up on top of changed when you svn rebase. Future rebases caused conflicts 
>> for me. Eventually i got to a point where i could not rebase any longer. 
>> However in between was an update to the git version i was using.
>> 
>> Anyhow, at that point i decided to keep it out of version control to ensure 
>> the head of my checkout is the latest from svn (on the master branch at 
>> least). Others may have a better way of doing this. I would be all ears to 
>> hear about how.
>> 
>> -Justin
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Gabriel 
>> Roldan<grol...@opengeo.org<mailto:grol...@opengeo.org><mailto:grol...@opengeo.org<mailto:grol...@opengeo.org>><mailto:grol...@opengeo.org<mailto:grol...@opengeo.org><mailto:grol...@opengeo.org<mailto:grol...@opengeo.org>>>>
>>    wrote:
>> 
>> thanks Andrea that's useful. Already removed .gitignore from svn.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Gabriel
>> On Aug 17, 2010, at 4:27 PM, Andrea Aime wrote:
>> 
>> Gabriel Roldan ha scritto:
>> Hey git users,
>> I wonder how do you manage to keep .gitignore from being added to the
>> svn repository when doing git svn dcommit?
>> I'm pretty sure Andrea told me he's actively using dcommit, and I'm
>> sure I did it too in the past for geoserver but somehow .gitignore
>> was ignored?
>> 
>> In my case I setup a global .gitignore in my home with the following
>> contents:
>> target
>> .project
>> .classpath
>> .settings
>> .springBeans
>> web/app/src/main/webapp/data/
>> 
>> And then I have no .gitignore files around in the checkout
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Andrea
>> 
>> --
>> Andrea Aime
>> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
>> Expert service straight from the developers.
>> 
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