Re: Ignore Visual Studio's Temp Files While Working with PG on Windows

On 2024-05-17 Fr 02:34, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 17.05.24 08:09, Yasir wrote:
>> I have been playing with PG on the Windows platform recently. An 
>> annoying thing I faced is that a lot of Visual Studio's temp files 
>> kept appearing in git changed files. Therefore, I am submitting this 
>> very trivial patch to ignore these temp files.
>
> Our general recommendation is that you put such things into your 
> personal global git ignore file.
>
> For example, I have in ~/.gitconfig
>
> [core]
>         excludesFile = ~/.gitexcludes
>
> and then in ~/.gitexcludes I have various ignores that are specific to 
> my local tooling.
>
> That way we don't have to maintain ignore lists for all the tools in 
> the world in the PostgreSQL source tree.
>
>
>

or if you want something repo-specific, you can add entries to 
.git/info/exclude


cheers


andrew

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