Re: Ignore Visual Studio's Temp Files While Working with PG on Windows

On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 1:45 AM Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:

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> On 2024-05-18 Sa 15:43, Yasir wrote:
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> On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 7:27 PM Josef Šimánek <josef(dot)simanek(at)gmail(dot)com>
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>> pá 17. 5. 2024 v 8:09 odesílatel Yasir <yasir(dot)hussain(dot)shah(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> napsal:
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>> > Hi Hackers,
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>> > I have been playing with PG on the Windows platform recently. An
>> annoying thing I faced is that a lot of Visual Studio's temp files kept
>> appearing in git changed files. Therefore, I am submitting this very
>> trivial patch to ignore these temp files.
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>> see
>> https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/getting-started-with-git/ignoring-files#configuring-ignored-files-for-all-repositories-on-your-computer
>> for various strategies
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> We can add it to "~/.config/git/ignore" as it will ignore globally on
> windows which we don't want. Also we don't have ".git/info/exclude" in PG
> project's so the best place left is projects's .gitignore. That's what was
> patched.
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> eh? git creates .git/info/exclude in every git repository AFAIK. And it's
> referred to here: <https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore>
> <https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore>
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> Yes, git creates .git/info/exclude but point is, it is not in PG
maintained codebase repo. So, no point adding to it.

BTW, Tom and Peter said it's not going to be added anyway!

> cheers
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> andrew
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> Andrew Dunstan
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