From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nicolas Richard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: .gitignore and .bzrignore files. Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 16:54:37 +0100 Message-ID: <87ha6na8xu.fsf@yahoo.fr> References: <20140321200042.236863805FB@snark.thyrsus.com> <532CE0B7.3010309@cs.ucla.edu> <20140322030017.GA29313@thyrsus.com> <532D057D.9050305@cs.ucla.edu> <20140322042921.GA29817@thyrsus.com> <532DA4BB.9070301@cs.ucla.edu> <20140322184734.GA2704@thyrsus.com> <8738i8ar0v.fsf_-_@yahoo.fr> <20140324103829.GB22737@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395676469 14197 80.91.229.3 (24 Mar 2014 15:54:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 15:54:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nicolas Richard , Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Eric S. Raymond" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 24 16:54:38 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WS7Cv-0005cF-U3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 16:54:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37136 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WS7Cv-0003fK-Kw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 11:54:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34317) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WS7Cn-0003by-VB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 11:54:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WS7Ci-0007q4-GG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 11:54:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mxin.ulb.ac.be ([164.15.128.112]:24687) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WS7Ci-0007pt-A5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 11:54:24 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AqAEAJ9UMFOkD4Xx/2dsb2JhbABZhx+/ZoEwdIIlAQEBAwEjVgULCAMaAgUhAgIPAQRJE4dkAQMJCKwpUZl/AYdcF4Ephj6EdoFqMweCb4FJBJZjgWeGNYYzhUmDLjw Original-Received: from mathsrv4.ulb.ac.be (HELO geodiff-mac3) ([164.15.133.241]) by smtp.ulb.ac.be with ESMTP; 24 Mar 2014 16:54:23 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20140324103829.GB22737@thyrsus.com> (Eric S. Raymond's message of "Mon, 24 Mar 2014 06:38:29 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 164.15.128.112 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:170912 Archived-At: "Eric S. Raymond" writes: > Nicolas Richard : >> I have one question : what goes in those ignore files=C2=A0? I've heard = some >> people want to ignore files created during compilation, while some other >> don't because they compile off tree and want to know if files get added >> in the tree. > > I don't see how not excluding (for example) .o files would help with this. When you compile off tree and an .o file is added in the tree, it's a problem that should be detected. Ignoring those files would only hide the problem. Note that I don't in fact do that, I was just reporting on what I have heard/read elsewhere. --=20 Nico.