From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 07:52:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add git format-patch produced patches to .gitignore
Message-ID: <20100516075244.GA9010@progeny.tock>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinSJTzYOk_MRp2ddlLnbd5dC65q-c4zQbv8Oubj@mail.gmail.com>

Pavan Kumar Sunkara wrote:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

>> --- a/.gitignore
>> +++ b/.gitignore
>> @@ -203,3 +203,4 @@
>>  *.pdb
>>  /Debug/
>>  /Release/
>> +[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-*.patch
[...]
> git format-patch -M origin/master -o outgoing/
> 
> So, my patches will be in subdirectory outgoing.
> But the regex rule in this patch won't be able to hide them.
> 
> What do u want to do in that case ?

Try it out.

In fact, I was worried that this patch would trigger a similar
problem: maybe some test data directory contains format-patch
output?  In fact none do, so I like the patch.

Thanks,
Jonathan