Re: Importing from tarballs; add, rm, update-index?

From: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Jan 13, 2007, 22:04 UTC
Message-ID: <200701132204.l0DM4jpE010938@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <spearce@spearce.org>

Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:

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> "Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> wrote:
> > Please don't. It would add e.g. the .class and .o and all ~ files, and all
> > other junk you have lying around (test cases, test run output, ...). It
> > isn't /that/ much more work after creating a new file to record its
> > existence...
> 
>   echo \*.class >>.gitignore
>   echo \*.o >>.gitignore
>   git add .gitignore
> 
> doesn't work for some reason?

Because each time I build a bit of scaffolding, or have a new test output, or... I'd have to add them to .gitignore. I'd very much prefer tracking real contents and not junk.

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