Re: [Condor-devel] What to do with .gitignore?

[Nathan Panike <nwp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 06:38:33PM -0500, Brian Bockelman wrote:
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> On Sep 6, 2012, at 6:02 PM, Zachary Miller <zmiller@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 05:57:01PM -0500, Brian Bockelman wrote:
> >> Hi git experts,
> >> 
> >> What do you folks do with .gitignore?  The fact that the default one doesn't filter out build artifacts drives me nuts, as "git status" is useless mostly.
> > 
> > i always do "out-of-source" builds, which skirts that issue entirely.
> > 
> 
> I understand there are some quite nice appeals of out-of-source, but, for some reason, they don't appear to jive with my workflow.
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> > 
> >> Any pro-tips for getting "git status" working again?  Alternately, would someone care if I committed a .gitignore that took out build artifacts?
> > 
> > i would be fine with .gitignore ignoring build artifiacts.  i guess the only
> > danger is intentially creating a file that matches one of your rules, but that
> > seems unlikely to me.
> > 
> 
> Ok.  I'll wait to see if anyone else chimes in, then do this approximately tomorrow.
> 
> Brian

Because I have a bad habit of doing in-source builds, 

git clean -ndfx | sed 's/^Would remove //' > .git/info/exclude

works for me.

Nathan Panike