Re: add generated files to .gitignore

On 02/24/2018 01:26 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: On 2/24/18 1:46 AM, don fong wrote: based on my experience creating one patch, running "make" and "make test", i found that "git status" was reporting a lot of generated and built files that i think should be ignored. Those files aren't ever pushed to

Re: misleading error message from variable modifier

On 2/23/18 10:20 PM, don fong wrote: > hi folks. i'm a bash user, who just noticed a slight anomaly. it has > to with the shell variable modifier ${parameter?} . according to the > man page, ${X?} should yield an error message and exit if X is unset, > otherwise the value of X. in this case, >

Re: add generated files to .gitignore

On 2/24/18 1:46 AM, don fong wrote: > based on my experience creating one patch, running "make" and "make > test", i found that "git status" was reporting a lot of generated and > built files that i think should be ignored. Those files aren't ever pushed to the bash git repositories (master,

Re: add generated files to .gitignore

Eric, thanks for the tip. my feeling is that regardless of whether these files are pushed, they clutter up the "git status" listing after i've done a build. On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 11:28 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 02/24/2018 01:26 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: >> >> On 2/24/18 1:46

Re: add generated files to .gitignore

On 2/24/18 3:36 PM, don fong wrote: > Eric, thanks for the tip. > > my feeling is that regardless of whether these files are pushed, they > clutter up the "git status" listing after i've done a build. You don't have to build in the source directory. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to