On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 2:42 AM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 10 Aug 2015 08:28, Justin (jlec) wrote: >> how do we maintain this file? > > like any other file. git add && git commit. > >> I like to propose to add the md5-cache into it. Which other files are of >> interest? > > /distfiles/ > /local/ > /packages/ > > /metadata/md5-cache/ > -mike
Expanding on this: the rsync master creates the following files/directories under metatdata. On my own system, I like to symlink them to locations outside my repo so that related portage features continue to work. I would like to have these added in .gitignore. metadata/dtd/ # used by something? metadata/glsa/ # used by the GLSA utilities? matadata/herds.xml # used by equery from gentoolkit metadata/news/ # used by eselect news