From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:07:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitignore: ignore GNU GLOBAL tag files
Message-ID: <vpqtyffrv68.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinG_pTCyMHov6AexP0rc=PV3wu2TmH=wSkRQ7nH@mail.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 05:49, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  /TAGS
>> +/GTAGS
>> +/GRTAGS
>> +/GPATH
>> +/GSYMS
>>  /cscope*
>>  *.obj
>>  *.lib
>
> What causes these to be added?

I don't know, but I suspect they are generated by some variant of
(e|c)tags which do not appear in our Makefile.

If this is the case, I'd say the place to put these is in a user-wide
.gitignore (cf. core.excludesfile).

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/