Hi Ben, I see that you've already submitted this review https://reviews.apache.org/r/17001/, but could answer my question above?
It's possible that you didn't receive it because I sent it through my Twitter email acct which is prone to being caught by email filters. Thanks, Dave On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Dave Lester <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Is there a previous thread you can point us to? I'd like to understand the > concern more. For most users, I think having a .gitignore file is the > most-convenient way to manage your code in development. If people want to > see ignored files, it's easy to run: > > git status --ignored > > What do you think? > > Dave > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Benjamin Hindman > <[email protected]>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 <[email protected] >> >wrote: >> >> > This makes sense to me. >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Charlie Carson <[email protected]> >> > 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 >> > > >> > >> > > > > -- > @davelester > Open Source Advocate | Twitter, Inc >
