Re: gitignore design

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 29, 2011, 12:27 UTC
Message-ID: <m3y5zhqnlv.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <1311941774976-6633332.post@n2.nabble.com>

llucianf <llucianf@gmail.com> writes:

> is not a contradiction. i need project files into repo so whenever i clone
> the project on diff machine i need them there.
> but during development i dont need them to be 'taken into account' by git.

The usual solution is to put _template_ under version control (for example <projfile>.sample), and have build system create initial custom version during first build. Local project file is untracked and ignored, and project file template is tracked.

> the purpose of this topic is for me to understand why git dont use the
> simple cvs approach on this matter.

Are you sure that is how CVS does it? Because from what I read in CVS manual, CVS and Git approach to ignore files are the same wrt. already tracked files.

> why i cant just enumerate some files into .gitignore file and have git
> simply ignore them without removing them from repo?

There is assume-unchanged mechanism... which is _explicitely_ mentioned in "Notes" section of gitignore(7) manpage. RTFM, please.

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Jakub Narębski