On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote: > Robert Haas wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>> Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes: >>>> On fre, 2010-01-08 at 12:04 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >>>>> Do .gitignore files have the same format as .cvsignore? >>>> The format is the same, but while cvsignore files currently list a few >>>> dozen files, the proposed gitignore would list all files that are ever >>>> build anywhere. >>> >>> The charter of the .cvsignore files is to ignore files that are not in >>> the repository but are nonetheless left behind after "make distclean". >>> Any git-oriented replacement should behave the same IMO. >>> >> >> Oh. Never mind. That doesn't seem useful enough to be worth spending >> time on. What I want is to ignore all of the build products, so that >> when I do 'git status' in my working tree, I only see the the files >> I've actually added/changed. Now that you mention it, I think I had >> the same complaint about the .cvsignore files back when I was using >> CVS. It seems like an odd charter. >> > Use a vpath build, and you'll keep those artifacts out of your source tree.
I suppose that's one answer, but of what use is it to ignore only the 'make distclean' leftovers? ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers