[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-gtk 2/7] Remove auto-generated .gitignore files from git

[Marc-André Lureau]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 10/10/2011 02:49 PM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
>>
>> Does this means that .gitignore will always show up in git status? If
>> yes, then that's bad and I would rather keep it..
>>
>
> No (I just checked), it just means that when the .gitignore files get
> regenerated
> in a slightly different way (when mostly happens after re-running
> ./autogen.sh),
> the changes won't accidentally end up in some unrelated commit.
>
> Really auto-generated files don't belong in git, that should not be
> something
> which needs discussion.

I agree, but it's not so simple, if you can join me to convince
cyrus-sasl guys to remove all generated files, I would be happy too.

ack


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Marc-André Lureau