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

On 2024-05-18 Sa 16:54, Yasir wrote:
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> On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 1:45 AM Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
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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> wrote:
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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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>> 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.
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> BTW, Tom and Peter said it's not going to be added anyway!
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You've completely missed my point, which is that *you* should be adding
it to that file, as an alternative to using a (locally) global gitignore
file.

I agree with Tom and Peter.

cheers

andrew

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