[openstack-dev] Add IDE specific directories to .gitignore

Flavio Percoco flavio at redhat.com
Tue Jun 18 09:27:20 UTC 2013


On 18/06/13 12:14 +0300, Roman Prykhodchenko wrote:
>Chmouel,
>
>Yes, it's possible to set up excluded directories in several ways. My question was why not make those directories excluded by default?
>

I'd rather let the user ignore those dirs locally instead of putting
them in project's .gitignore. IMHO, there are many of them and we'd
end up having a .gitignore full of IDEs specific ignores that nobody
cares about. I also think this makes part of OpenStack not being
opinionated.

>On Jun 18, 2013, at 11:14 , Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel at enovance.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Roman Prykhodchenko
>> <rprikhodchenko at mirantis.com> wrote:
>>> Of course, it's possible to modify local .git/info/exclude but isn't it reasonable to include the most common folders to our .gitignore?
>>
>>
>> Why the user is not setting this up in his global exclude git file
>> https://help.github.com/articles/ignoring-files#global-gitignore and
>> be done with it ?
>>

+1

Cheers,
FF

P.S: Pls, don't top-post.

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