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Bug 327996 - Default .gitignore for the git mirrors
Summary: Default .gitignore for the git mirrors
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Community
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: Git (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Eclipse Webmaster CLA
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Reported: 2010-10-17 15:02 EDT by Lars Vogel CLA
Modified: 2010-10-18 16:19 EDT (History)
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Description Lars Vogel CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 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 CLA 2010-10-18 16:19:12 EDT 
Ah didn't know that. Thanks. Bug can be closed.