| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tim Bunce <Tim(dot)Bunce(at)pobox(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Add .gitignore files to CVS? |
| Date: | 2010-01-09 22:51:23 |
| Message-ID: | 1263077483.1339.30.camel@vanquo.pezone.net |
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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.
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