Re: .gitignore additions

On Jan 23, 2013 8:59 AM, "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
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> On 01/23/2013 08:47 AM, Phil Sorber wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:32 AM, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 01:05:12PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
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>>>> Hi all
>>>>
>>>> Would a committer be willing to pop some entries in .gitignore for
>>>> Windows native build outputs?
>>>>
>>>> *.sln
>>>> *.vcproj
>>>> *.vcxproj
>>>>
>>>> It'd make life easier when testing Windows changes.
>>>
>>> While they're at it, it'd be nice to have tags from ctags (via our
>>> tools or otherwise) get ignored globally, along with cscope.out , as
>>> follows:
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>>> tags
>>> /cscope.out
>>>
>> +1 on cscope.out!
>>
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> There doesn't seem anything postgres-specific about these. Pretty much
everything we list is a byproduct of a standard build, not some other tool.
"man gitignore" says
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> Patterns which a user wants git to ignore in all situations (e.g.,
> backup or temporary files generated by the user’s editor of choice)
> generally go into a file specified by core.excludesfile in the
> user’s ~/.gitconfig.
>

That's a good point. Will do that instead.

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> I would think tags files and cscope.out probably come into that category,
although I don't have terribly strong feelings about it.
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> cheers
>
> andrew
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