[bind10-dev] .gitignore

Tomek Mrugalski tomasz at isc.org
Mon Dec 5 13:07:05 UTC 2011


Hi,
After a compilation, there are hundreds of files created. git reports
them as new files and finding actual modifications is somewhat
problematic (not difficult, but rather annoying). This problem is solved
by adding .gitignore that lists files that should be ignored by git.

My proposal is to create one global .gitignore that will remove the
usual suspects (*.o *.lo .deps .libs *.la, possibly also *.pyc). Some
components also create files on their own (e.g. *.wire), so we can
probably add dedicated .gitignore for specific components. With this
simple addition, output of git status decreased from 1404 lines to 570
for me. Still not perfect, but much more readable.

I think that keeping one huge .gitignore is worse than having several
small per-component .gitignores.

If there are no objections, I'd like to check in my .gitignore (the
global one and dedicated for all DHCP components). There is ticket
#1197, so if you have any suggestions you can answer on ML or update the
ticket (or both).

Tomek



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