From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:09:09 GMT
Subject: Re: getting git to ignore modifications to specific files
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.