Ok - that sounds like the context I was missing. do you want me to do send a CR for adding .gitignore-template (just a single file in the root) path?
cc On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Benjamin Hindman <b...@eecs.berkeley.edu>wrote: > People have asked about this before. Some people don't want .gitignore > files because they like to see everything that's in their directories, > including generated files so they have a better idea of when something was > supposed to get generated but didn't, etc. > > In the past people have simply added their own .gitignore (adding > '.gitignore' to it as well so it ignores itself). Someone once proposed > committing a .gitignore-template (or something similarly named) that a > developer can copy to .gitignore if they choose to (but this doesn't force > people that don't want .gitignore to use it). > > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Dave Lester <d...@ischool.berkeley.edu > >wrote: > > > This makes sense to me. > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Charlie Carson <ccar...@twitter.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hey guys, is it good / bad / different if we were to add the files that > > > automake generates and to put them into appropriate .gitignore files > and > > > check those in? > > > > > > I'm new to mesos dev, so probably missing context, but wanted to double > > > check instead of just working around it for myself. > > > > > > if it does make sense then I'd be happy to create the JIRA and initial > > CR. > > > > > > thanks, > > > cc > > > > > >
