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Re: getting git to ignore modifications to specific files

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 2, 2010, 04:09 UTC
Message-ID
<20100902040909.GD29713@burratino>
In-Reply-To
<4C7EA1FF.8030307@gmail.com>
Chris Packham wrote:
> There are a couple of repositories that are local clones of 3rd party
> repositories which have included the pesky auto-generated files so whle
> I can remove the offending files from repositories we control I need
> another solution for the 3rd part ones.

FWIW one half-solution that has worked well for me is to make a local clone without the autogenerated files and complain to upstream so the local clone becomes superfluous after a while.

Naturally another solutions might work better, though.
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  1. Chris PackhamSep 1, 2010
  2. Joshua JensenSep 1, 2010
  3. Bruce KorbSep 1, 2010
  4. Chris PackhamSep 1, 2010
  5. Joshua JuranSep 1, 2010
  6. Jonathan NiederSep 2, 2010
  7. Jan KrügerSep 2, 2010
  8. Michael J GruberSep 2, 2010
  9. Chris PackhamSep 2, 2010

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