Re: Alternate .gitignore

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 8, 2010, 12:45 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTimG188_8qg-DTtJtvX-wkpotgp7+f8Bu4b4ayMn@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20101008T141929-221@post.gmane.org>

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:31, Maaartin <grajcar1@seznam.cz> wrote:

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> I'm using git for a project, where I'd like to store not only the sources but
> some quite large generated files, too. However, I'd like to keep them separated,
> so my source depository doesn't grow too much. The problem could be solved
> nicely if there was a possibility to use .gitignore for the source tree and let
> say .gitignore2 for the extended tree. I'd use two depositories: .git and .git2.
>
> The content if .gitignore2 could be a subset of the content of .gitignore, so
> the extended tree would contain the sources as well, which is not really a
> problem. Or maybe I could make the depositories disjoint, I'm not sure now.
>
> Is something like this possible or is it too strange requirement?

Have you looked into storing your binaries in a git-submodule(1) ?