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2008/5/4 Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>: > attached patch adds new script to generate a .gitignore file from MANIFEST. > It uses a universal ignore directive (*\n), followed by negated > ignore directives to *attend* to each file in MANIFEST That seems completely backwards to me. > The downside of this approach is that git-status will no longer remind you > of new files youve added to the working tree, but not git-add'd. Which is certainly the single thing that annoys me the most in perforce. It seems that most of our "oops" commits in perforce are along the lines of "oops, I forgot to p4 add this new file". > This can be fixed by narrowing the universal ignore to something like > > *.[oa] > *.so > *.exists > *.bs > # others are needed.. I think that listing explicitly what we don't want to see is a better approach. So, those files, plus config.h, Makefiles, *.old, const-*.inc, opmini.c, perlmain.c, lib/auto/*, etc, etc. That will be an awful lot of files, and a script like yours can help maintaining a .gitignore file, but I don't want a bare "*" in there.Thread Previous | Thread Next