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Re: Git BOF notes

From
THTimo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 22, 2006, 20:03 UTC
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<20060722230338.4ebcf7f8.tihirvon@gmail.com>
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<20060722191652.GR13776@pasky.or.cz>
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
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> > Usually I start small projects as a single .c or .java file. Only after a 
> > while, I think it is worth it to init a git database. So, I _always_ have 
> > generated files lying around. And I would hate it if they were checked in 
> > automatically. (Yeah, I could remove them, _then_ remove them from the 
> > index, and then git-commit --amend. Ugly.)
> 
> Can't you just do make clean before git init? Or you can prepare
> .gitignore before you check stuff in, so that the autogenerated files
> don't pollute your git status output. ;-)

I like git init-db as it is now. I don't want it to automatically add files. GIT does what you ask it to do, not what it _thinks_ you want to do.

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  1. Petr BaudisJul 19, 2006
  2. J. Bruce FieldsJul 21, 2006
  3. Petr BaudisJul 21, 2006
  4. Johannes SchindelinJul 22, 2006
  5. Petr BaudisJul 22, 2006
  6. Johannes SchindelinJul 22, 2006
  7. Petr BaudisJul 22, 2006
  8. Timo HirvonenJul 22, 2006
  9. Johannes SchindelinJul 23, 2006
  10. J. Bruce FieldsJul 21, 2006
  11. Petr BaudisJul 21, 2006
  12. Alex RiesenJul 21, 2006
  13. Nguyễn Thái Ngọc DuyJul 22, 2006
  14. Alex RiesenJul 23, 2006
  15. Catalin MarinasJul 24, 2006
  16. Petr BaudisJul 24, 2006
  17. Nguyễn Thái Ngọc DuyJul 24, 2006

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