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Bug 327996

Summary:	Default .gitignore for the git mirrors
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Lars Vogel <Lars.Vogel>
Component:	Git	Assignee:	Eclipse Webmaster <webmaster>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	Lars.Vogel
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Lars Vogel

2010-10-17 15:02:12 EDT

Under http://dev.eclipse.org/git/index.html you provide mirrors for the Eclipse projects. 

Would it be possible to add to the projects a default .gitignore file which contains the "bin" folder?

Comment 1 Eclipse Webmaster

2010-10-18 13:59:24 EDT

Isn't this something for each project to decide? Or am I mis-understanding how your proposing this be used?

-M.

Comment 2 Lars Vogel

2010-10-18 14:03:42 EDT

Is their a way the project can set this up? I assumes all this stuff is auto-generated. "bin" is only binary content for Java projects.

Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster

2010-10-18 14:15:40 EDT

Ah that clears things up a bit.  Yes the 'mirrors' repos are auto-generated, so we(webmaster) would need to try and stuff this into the mirror scripts.

I'm still not sure what the problem is with the 'bin' folder.  

-M.

Comment 4 Lars Vogel

2010-10-18 14:55:55 EDT

If you checkout the git repo and forget to set .gitignore yourself, then git will try to commit all the generated class files in the bin folder. Cleaning this up is really difficult. 

Therefore I think a reasonable setting would be to have "bin" excluded per default. I don't think this would cause issues for any (Java) Projekt.

Comment 5 Eclipse Webmaster

2010-10-18 15:48:09 EDT

Well now I'm back to my first comment.  The 'mirrors' are read only(since they're generated from CVS).  Now if you are committing to one of the projects that uses git, it's something the project can 'tweak'(or I can do it for them).

-M.

Comment 6 Lars Vogel

2010-10-18 16:19:12 EDT

Ah didn't know that. Thanks. Bug can be closed.