[systemd-devel] [PATCH] .gitignore: add GNU GLOBAL files

[Łukasz Stelmach]

It was <2015-05-15 pią 18:36>, when Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> On 15 May 2015 at 17:19, Łukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach at samsung.com> wrote:
>> It was <2015-05-15 pią 18:03>, when Lennart Poettering wrote:
>>> On Fri, 15.05.15 17:39, Łukasz Stelmach (l.stelmach at samsung.com) wrote:
>>>
>>>> It was <2015-05-15 pią 17:25>, when Lennart Poettering wrote:
>>>> > On Fri, 15.05.15 17:12, Łukasz Stelmach (l.stelmach at samsung.com) wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > Hmm? What is GNU GLOBAL?
>>>>
>>>> Another cscope. A quote from http://www.gnu.org/software/global/
>>>>
>>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>>>     GNU GLOBAL is a source code tagging system that works the same way
>>>>     across diverse environments, such as Emacs editor, Vi editor, Less
>>>>     viewer, Bash shell, various web browsers, etc.
>>>>
>>>>     You can locate various objects, such as functions, macros, structs,
>>>>     classes, in your source files and move there easily. [...]
>>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>>>
>>>> The index files should not appear in "git status".
>>>
>>> And is that tool even popular?
>>
>> Admittedly not the most popular but noticable.
>>
>> https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=cscope%2Cglobal%2Cexuberant-ctags&show_installed=on&want_percent=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=2010-01-01&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1
>>
>
> With my Debian Developer hat on... popcon is not a metric... We mostly
> still have it as a trap - whenever popcon used as a reason it is shot
> down as invalid =)

Let's say that I considered popcon data rather binarily:  x > ε ? 1 : 0
;-)

> [...]  Imho .gitignore should only be used to clean-up & ignore by
> products that a given project generates, the rest IDE cruft is to be
> ignored on per user cases in a global excludes file as I've shown
> earlier.

Thank you for the hint. I haven't remebered that option.

-- 
Łukasz Stelmach
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics
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