In theory, you can do that by have a personal .gitignore file specifed in your git config. see the below from here<http://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore>. (I say in theory b/c I haven't done it yet :-) )
- Patterns which a user wants Git to ignore in all situations (e.g., backup or temporary files generated by the user's editor of choice) generally go into a file specified by core.excludesfilein the user's ~/.gitconfig. Its default value is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/ignore is used instead. cc On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Vinod Kone <[email protected]> wrote: > My concern with adding .gitignore to the repo is that typically I have > additional things I want to ignore that are specific to me (e.g., eclipse > project files). Adding those to the .gitignore would should up in my git > diff and git status if .gitignore is a tracked file. > > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Dave Lester <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > >
