Re: jgit and ignore

> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Ferry Huberts (Pelagic)
> <ferry.huberts@pelagic.nl> wrote:
>> Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
>>> Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I'm using jgit in eclipse. Works great for me.
>>> Yay!
>>>
>>>> I have a couple of generated files in my working directory. There
>>>> doesn't seem to be any UI for ignoring them. Is it there and I just
>>>> can't find it?
>>> EGit doesn't (yet) honor the .gitignore files like it should. Someone
>>> (Ferry i-forget-the-rest-of-his-name) is working on adding ignore
>>> support and has patches in flight for at least some of it.
>>>
>> Ferry i-do-remember-my-name Huberts is working on it :-)
>>
>> I have most of it working in a basic form already but am currently
>> refactoring things to take care of some nasty little details.
>> Expect something to arrive within (my best guesstimate) about 3 to 4
>> weeks. after next week I'll be skiing for a week, so no coding then :-)
>>
>> For the new functionality:
>> You don't really need a UI: just add a .gitignore file with a pattern
>> and the plugin will pick it up and show you what is ignored by means of
>> a nice little decoration.
> 
> I expected it to work by right clicking the file and picking
> team/ignore. This would add the file name .gitignore and automatically
> add .gitignore to my commit. It would also alter the eclipse filter to
> make the file disappear in the eclipse browser.
>