From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Shouldn't vc-dir show only files under VC by default? Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 08:49:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="128875"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 01 14:49:39 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iFHb0-000XLt-MY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:49:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41552 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iFHaz-0002dx-58 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 08:49:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46986) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iFHao-0002dp-Ez for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 08:49:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iFHan-0001Uj-Go for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 08:49:26 -0400 Original-Received: from 195-159-176-226.customer.powertech.no ([195.159.176.226]:38750 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iFHan-0001Qz-9D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 08:49:25 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iFHaj-000X1B-PL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:49:21 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:+QDRXBD+Erq4qS1o5btXSDYeazk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:121590 Archived-At: > The problem is I have to use a tool (Android Studio) which generates > lots of extra files and directories automatically in the source tree > which I may or may not modify. AFAIK, this problem should affect all users, rather than only VC users, because it's standard practice to show unregistered files (e.g. `git status` also shows them). So, maybe you should ask around the Android Studio crowd how people usually deal with that. > If I don't modify them then they can be > ignored, but if I do modify them then I have to add them to git and in > the latter case it is inconvenient that I have to unignore the file > first. You don't need to "unignore" them. Just `git add ` and you're done. `.gitignore` only determines whether a unknown file should be mentioned as "unregistered" or not; it has no effect on files which are under Git's control. Stefan