Hi Bruno, personally I use normally only two entries:
================== %< ================= .* target ================== %< ================= Which implies that I have to force the addition of .gitignore and .gitattributes files. Cheers, Jörg Bruno P. Kinoshita wrote: > 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
