Jim Meyering wrote about modifications done to .gitignore files:
> I've Cc'd bug-gnulib, since gnulib-tool appears
> to be doing it.
>
> I notice that some of your differences appear to be due to sorting
> with a different locale than I use. That implies there's a second
> problem: perhaps one of gnulib-tool's uses of sort is not prefixed
> with LC_ALL=C.
In both cases, the problem lies in the 'bootstrap' script, not in
'gnulib-tool'. gnulib-tool does only two things with the .gitignore files:
- It adds added files, at the end of the .gitignore file.
- It removes removed files from the list.
See gnulib-tool lines 5312..5319:
mv -f "$destdir/$dir$ignore" "$destdir/$dir$ignore"~
...
{ cat "$destdir/$dir$ignore"~
sed -e "s|^|$anchor|" < "$tmp"/ignore-added
} | sed -f "$tmp"/sed-ignore-removed \
> "$destdir/$dir$ignore"
gnulib-tool does *not* add blank lines.
gnulib-tool does *not* sort the files.
gnulib-tool preserves comments in the files.
Bruno
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