Re: [PATCH] Add git format-patch produced patches to .gitignore

From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date: May 16, 2010, 14:05 UTC
Message-ID: <4BEFFBB5.7010808@drmicha.warpmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <1273958566-7328-1-git-send-email-avarab@gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason venit, vidit, dixit 15.05.2010 23:22:

> Change Git's own .gitignore so that patches produced with git
> format-patch don't show up as untracked.
>

Does the git build process call format-patch? No! The .gitignore we distribute is meant for things the build process creates, not for imposing a specific workflow on developers.

If you want to ignore format patch output, simply use .git/info/excludes or a global excludes file, but please don't force everyone else to live with that or work around it.

Cheers, Michael

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> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
> ---
>  .gitignore |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
> index dbf1b90..039d99c 100644
> --- a/.gitignore
> +++ b/.gitignore
> @@ -203,3 +203,4 @@
>  *.pdb
>  /Debug/
>  /Release/
> +[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-*.patch