Hi, [collections] recently received a pull request [1] to add VIM files to the gitignore file. Its currently gitignore contains only a few entries for Eclipse ([lang] has more entries for Eclipse).
I remember asking something similar, and learning about the global gitignore. But besides that, in the same thread, Benedikt suggested having only build files ignored in our gitignore files [2], which I think is a good idea. Our components do not follow any rule for gitignore files I think. I normally check [lang] when I need to add a .gitignore to a new computer, but just realized [text] and [lang] gitignore files differ ([lang] has a .checkstyle file under the Eclipse ignored files). I'm okay merging the pull request for [collections], but then we may also add the remaining entries from [lang] there... except this pull request adds *.swp which is missing from [lang]. So should we add it there too? Some days ago I used NetBeans to test a generics suppress warning message [3], but we may have developers using it as main IDE too. Would it be all right to merge pull requests for it too? Or for files generated by plug-ins for Eclipse/IntelliJ/etc? What about 1) leaving only files generated by our build tools, 2) add a comment to the .gitignore file describing how it works with links, 3) add a comment to https://wiki.apache.org/commons/UsingGIT and/or to the CONTRIBUTING.md perhaps with a sample global gitignore file? Cheers Bruno [1] https://github.com/apache/commons-collections/pull/21 [2] http://markmail.org/message/yvflc6kxgjalhldx?q=global+gitignore+list:org%2Eapache%2Ecommons%2Edev#query:global%20gitignore%20list%3Aorg.apache.commons.dev+page:1+mid:ioex63sxnf6culwb+state:results [3] https://github.com/apache/commons-collections/pull/17 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
