Re: add generated files to .gitignore

[Eric Blake]

On 02/24/2018 01:26 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 2/24/18 1:46 AM, don fong wrote:
> > based on my experience creating one patch, running "make" and "make
> > test", i found that "git status" was reporting a lot of generated and
> > built files that i think should be ignored.
>
> Those files aren't ever pushed to the bash git repositories (master,
> devel).

If Chet doesn't want to patch the primary bash.git to ignore them for 
everybody in .gitignore, you can still patch your downstream repo to 
ignore them locally by instead adding those exclusions to .git/info/exclude.

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