Re: [git-users] Keeping IDE files in a public project

2013-03-26 Thread Ram Rachum
Cool, I think I'll use something like this. (Except that I'll do `merge --squash` to merge back my changes.) Thanks Dale and Gergely! On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Dale R. Worley wor...@alum.mit.edu wrote: One approach might be to keep one set of branches that have your IDE files, and one

Re: [git-users] Keeping IDE files in a public project

2013-03-25 Thread Dale R. Worley
One approach might be to keep one set of branches that have your IDE files, and one set of branches that don't. Something like: 1. remote tracking branch from the authoritative repository 2. your working branch, without IDE files 3. your working branch(es), with IDE files You work in #3.

Re: [git-users] Keeping IDE files in a public project

2013-03-22 Thread Gergely Polonkai
That depends on your IDE. E.g. Netbeans cat store the project (IDE) files in a separate directory, and as I remember, Eclipse can do the same. On 22 March 2013 23:22, Ram Rachum ram.rac...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everybody, Here's a problem I had to deal with many times. I'm hoping someone here

Re: [git-users] Keeping IDE files in a public project

2013-03-22 Thread Ram Rachum
Gergerly, that doesn't solve my problem. I want the files to be saved for me to be able to use them on any computer in which I work on the repo. On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Gergely Polonkai gerg...@polonkai.euwrote: That depends on your IDE. E.g. Netbeans cat store the project (IDE)

Re: [git-users] Keeping IDE files in a public project

2013-03-22 Thread Gergely Polonkai
If you manage to store them in a different directory, it will be easy to manage them in a your own repository. E.g you check out the project source in /home/user/project/source from git.project.com and the IDE files to /home/user/project/ide from git.example.com, and combine them by using the

Re: [git-users] Keeping IDE files in a public project

2013-03-22 Thread Ram Rachum
And this will be more convenient than a submodule? On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Gergely Polonkai gerg...@polonkai.euwrote: If you manage to store them in a different directory, it will be easy to manage them in a your own repository. E.g you check out the project source in

Re: [git-users] Keeping IDE files in a public project

2013-03-22 Thread Gergely Polonkai
Submodules are committed with the project, so your fellow developers would see that they exist. Also, submodules need to be committed separately, while the approach I described can be automated with software like SparkleShare (if you don't mind that you don't control the commit messages) On 23

Re: [git-users] Keeping IDE files in a public project

2013-03-22 Thread Ram Rachum
If the open-source project's repository is a submodule of my own, wouldn't that work? On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 1:32 AM, Gergely Polonkai gerg...@polonkai.euwrote: Submodules are committed with the project, so your fellow developers would see that they exist. Also, submodules need to be