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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: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-01-09T22:53:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On lör, 2010-01-09 at 17:12 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> Oh.  Never mind.  That doesn't seem useful enough to be worth spending
> time on.  What I want is to ignore all of the build products, so that
> when I do 'git status' in my working tree, I only see the the files
> I've actually added/changed.

Shouldn't it be possible to just build the master branch once and then
take the result of git status to produce the list of files to be
ignored?  That should reduce the maintenance effort.