Re: .gitignore files, take two

Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>

From: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-09-21T16:26:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
At 2010-09-21 11:02:30 -0400, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
>
> So you really do need git ignore to ignore all build products;
> otherwise you'll have lots of chatter in "git status".

Right.

I usually put build products into a top-level build directory and put
"build/" in my top-level .gitignore (but I haven't tried to figure out
how hard it would be to do that with the Postgres Makefiles, so it's
just a thought, not a serious suggestion).

-- ams