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Re: Add .gitignore files to CVS?

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-01-09T14:36:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On fre, 2010-01-08 at 12:04 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Do .gitignore files have the same format as .cvsignore?  If that's the
> case then it's simply a matter of a "find /source -name .cvsignore
> -exec
> cp {} .gitignore \;" or similar, isn't it?  Doesn't sound like
> something
> anybody should sweat over. 

The format is the same, but while cvsignore files currently list a few
dozen files, the proposed gitignore would list all files that are ever
build anywhere.