Re: Add .gitignore files to CVS?

Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
>> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>>
>>> On fre, 2010-01-08 at 12:04 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>>
>>>> Do .gitignore files have the same format as .cvsignore?
>>>>
>>> The format is the same, but while cvsignore files currently list a few
>>> dozen files, the proposed gitignore would list all files that are ever
>>> build anywhere.
>>>
>> The charter of the .cvsignore files is to ignore files that are not in
>> the repository but are nonetheless left behind after "make distclean".
>> Any git-oriented replacement should behave the same IMO.
>>
>
> Oh. Never mind. That doesn't seem useful enough to be worth spending
> time on. What I want is to ignore all of the build products, so that
> when I do 'git status' in my working tree, I only see the the files
> I've actually added/changed. Now that you mention it, I think I had
> the same complaint about the .cvsignore files back when I was using
> CVS. It seems like an odd charter.
>
>

Use a vpath build, and you'll keep those artifacts out of your source tree.

cheers

andrew