I actually did add one when i setup the initial repo.

https://github.com/geotools/geotools/blob/master/.gitignore

Not 100% sure i get why we should not have one in the repo Ben?

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:12 AM, David Winslow <dwins...@opengeo.org> wrote:

> Git supports a user-specific .gitignore file - as described here:
> https://help.github.com/articles/ignoring-files . It's additive - so both
> ignore lists are considered when determining which files to ignore.
>
> Would it make sense to commit a .gitignore for GeoTools with the things
> that are produced by the GeoTools build (.pyc, target/) and leave
> tool-specific things like .classpath up to the global ignore file?
>
> --
> David Winslow
> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/
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>
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Then we will really need to add this to the instructions (or risk
>> target folders being committed)
>>
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>> On 02/07/2012, at 4:14 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies
>> <ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au> wrote:
>>
>> > No, no, never commit .gitignore. Mine always starts with .gitignore  :-)
>> >
>> > The advantage of a local-only .gitignore is that every user can adapt
>> their .gitignore to their local build tools (netbeans ...). If there is one
>> thing I learned from svn it its that svn:ignore is an antipattern; it
>> exposes local details to the community.
>> >
>> > On 02/07/12 11:54, Jody Garnett wrote:
>> >> should we consider committing one of these now that we are all using
>> git?
>> >
>> > --
>> > Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au>
>> > Software Engineer
>> > CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering
>> > Australian Resources Research Centre
>> >
>> >
>>
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