On lör, 2010-01-09 at 17:19 -0500, Robert Haas wrote: > >> 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?
That charter was established before make maintainer-clean was invented. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers