Re: .gitignore polution

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 15, 2009, 09:43 UTC
Message-ID: <20091115094352.GA21477@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e0911141557k5f6b0b8aud48b95784a9da4e3@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 12:57:31AM +0100, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

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> I usually compile git from next (sometimes pu to test out a new
> feature), and when I then switch back to a development branch (usually
> based off master) I get something like this:
> 
> $ git status
> # On branch remote-helpers
> # Untracked files:
> #   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
> #
> #	git-http-backend
> #	git-notes
> #	git-remote-hg
> #	test-index-version
> 
> Now I can easily do 'git clean -f', but it's somewhat annoying. How do
> other developers deal with this?

I use "git clean". :)

The other option is to mark them for ignore outside of the branch-specific ignore:

  git ls-files -o --exclude-standard >>.git/info/exclude

-Peff