From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ignore files generated by regression testing Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 00:09:42 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <546EF346.2010600@cs.ucla.edu> References: <021toy8rc0.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <546E52CA.9050709@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416557431 15203 80.91.229.3 (21 Nov 2014 08:10:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 08:10:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lee Duhem , Emacs Devel To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 21 09:10:23 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 1XrjIL-0003M6-Ns for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 09:10:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39019 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrjIK-0001g1-TM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 03:10:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54493) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrjI1-0001bX-0l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 03:10:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrjHt-0007YY-7f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 03:10:00 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:50091) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrjHt-0007YM-24; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 03:09:53 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E005A6003D; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 00:09:51 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id WV5c9CQJKUx4; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 00:09:42 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-71-177-17-123.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.177.17.123]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 771C1A6000D; Fri, 21 Nov 2014 00:09:42 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 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:177915 Archived-At: Glenn Morris wrote: > I wonder why the gitignore file wasn't simply a more literal conversion > of the bzrignore file. Maybe now it is. .gitignore has been around since 1999, I suppose for Git copies of the repositories. Perhaps that contributed to the confusion. The new .gitignore looks a lot like the old .bzrignore, but it's not the same, as I removed stuff that looked to me like it was obsolete (e.g., configure.lineno, src/_gdbinit) and refactored for simplicity (e.g., *.log). I made some mistakes in that, which have been repaired (and most likely more repairs are needed) but it seemed like a good time for a fresh start.