[bind10-dev] .gitignore

[Stephen Morris]

On 05/12/2011 13:07, Tomek Mrugalski wrote:
> 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've no objection to doing this.

I would remark that in most cases what you are trying to exclude is
untracked files, and the command "git status -uno" does this.

Stephen