[gst-cvs] gst-openmax: .gitignore: ignore more

[René Stadler]

Felipe Contreras schrieb:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Tim Mueller
> <tpm at kemper.freedesktop.org> wrote:
>> Module: gst-openmax
>> Branch: master
>> Commit: de5e68583091b5e9b8223d9a893624cb04106a50
>> URL:    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-openmax/commit/?id=de5e68583091b5e9b8223d9a893624cb04106a50
>>
>> Author: Tim-Philipp Müller <tim.muller at collabora.co.uk>
>> Date:   Tue Mar 24 21:18:52 2009 +0000
>>
>> .gitignore: ignore more
>>
>> ---
>>
>>  .gitignore |    4 ++++
>>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
>> index afb17c9..d358eb5 100644
>> --- a/.gitignore
>> +++ b/.gitignore
>> @@ -14,3 +14,7 @@ config/
>>  configure
>>  libtool
>>  stamp-h1
>> +
>> +m4/*
> 
> Which files exactly are bothering you? I suppose some tool is adding
> .m4 files there, but at least I haven't seen them.

Libtoolize called from autogen.sh copies m4/libtool.m4 and m4/lt*.m4. My advice 
would be to exclude these (and only these) because they are created by the 
build system. m4/* is a bad idea since you in fact make changes to files in 
that directory.

>> +*~
> 
> That's not appropriate (from the git documentation[1]):
> Patterns which a user wants git to ignore in all situations (e.g.,
> backup or temporary files generated by the user's editor of choice)
> generally go into a file specified by core.excludesfile in the user's
> ~/.gitconfig.
> 
> [1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitignore.html
> 

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Regards,
   René Stadler