Eric, thanks for the tip. my feeling is that regardless of whether these files are pushed, they clutter up the "git status" listing after i've done a build.
On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 11:28 AM, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 02/24/2018 01:26 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: >> >> On 2/24/18 1:46 AM, don fong wrote: >>> >>> based on my experience creating one patch, running "make" and "make >>> test", i found that "git status" was reporting a lot of generated and >>> built files that i think should be ignored. >> >> >> Those files aren't ever pushed to the bash git repositories (master, >> devel). > > > If Chet doesn't want to patch the primary bash.git to ignore them for > everybody in .gitignore, you can still patch your downstream repo to ignore > them locally by instead adding those exclusions to .git/info/exclude. > > -- > Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer > Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 > Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
