Re: jgit and ignore

From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 1, 2009, 12:54 UTC
Message-ID: <9e4733910903010454u662eb5afob45f608321660500@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <49AA5F64.6070207@pelagic.nl>

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Ferry Huberts (Pelagic) <ferry.huberts@pelagic.nl> wrote:

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> 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.

>
> Ferry
>

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Jon Smirl
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