[openstack-dev] [OpenStack-Dev] IDE extensions in .gitignore

John Griffith john.griffith at solidfire.com
Tue Dec 31 17:41:34 UTC 2013


On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Joe Gordon <joe.gordon0 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 8:45 AM, John Griffith <john.griffith at solidfire.com>
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>> Hey Everyone,
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>> I wanted to see where we stand on IDE extensions in .gitignore files.
>> We seem to have some back and forth, one cycle there's a bug and a
>> patch to add things like eclipse, idea etc and the next there's a bug
>> and a patch to remove them.  I'd like to have some sort of consensus
>> on what we want here.  I personally don't have a preference, I would
>> just like to have consistency and quit thrashing back and forth.
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>> Anyway, I'd like to see all of the projects agree on this... or even
>> consider moving to a global .gitignore.  Thoughts??
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> I am not sure if this is the global .gitignore you are thinking of but this
> is the one I am in favor of:
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> https://help.github.com/articles/ignoring-files#global-gitignore

Yep

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> Maintaining .gitignore in 30+ repositories for a potentially infinite number
> of editors is very hard, and thankfully we have an easier way to do it.

Exactly

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>> John
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