Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Add .gitignore

[Alan Post]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:51:28PM +0200, Felix wrote:
> From: Mario Domenech Goulart <address@hidden>
> Subject: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Add .gitignore
> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:08:17 -0400
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The attached patch adds a .gitignore file to the repository.
> 
> I often have additional files in my working copy - test-files,
> experimental stuff, an such things. I think .gitignore should be
> possible to personalize without having to pay attention whether
> changes to it get committed or not. Does this make sense? I'm
> not sure. There possibly is some obscure git hack to deal
> with this situation...
> 
> 
> cheers,
> felix
> 

There is.  Your ~/.gitignore is combined with the per-repository
.gitignore for the complete list.  So your personal ignore list
can be added to ~/.gitignore.

If that doesn't seem satisfactory, you can also add .gitignore to
the .gitignore file, so your local changes won't show up in git
status.

-Alan
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