Re: [Bug-wget] [Bug-Wget] Global gitignore

[Duy Nguyen]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Darshit Shah <address@hidden> wrote:
> Probably. I simply redirected the output of 'git status' and manually sorted 
> them into the directories.

Split them in multiple .gitignore (per directory) is good. A single
large .gitignore may slow things down. See
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/194294

> However why is a slash prefix a good idea?

It gives git a hint that these entries only apply to top-level
directory, so git can ignore them when examining subdirectories

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> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:52 AM, Ángel González <address@hidden>
> wrote:
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>> Darshit Shah wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> When building the repository sources, a large number of files are
>>> autogenerated and hence are not version controlled in git.
>>> However, all these files pollute the output of commands like `git
>>> status`. The only way around it is to place all the autogenerated
>>> files in a single .gitignore file and share it with the repository
>>> itself.
>>>
>>> I've compiled a .gitignore that can be used in Wget's repository. This
>>> file ignores all the autogenerated files due to bootstrap, configure,
>>> make and make check.
>>> On top of it, I've also ignored some extra files like tags and
>>> cscope.out which I assume a lot of developers are probably using. I've
>>> attached the file for everyone's convenience here. Maybe we can ship
>>> this file with the sources itself?
>> +1
>> But I would prefix with a slash the files in the Project Root.



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Duy