Re: *.eps and *.svg .gitignore patterns match files in repo

[David Kastrup]

James Lowe <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello 'bug' and Mark,
>
> On 21/08/15 08:56, markdblackwell wrote:
>>> Any chance to see an uncensored version of this on the actual
>>> mailing list? Not everybody uses Nabble, and you can see what got
>>> actually sent out on the list by looking at 
>>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2015-08/msg00065.html
>>>
>>> 
> --David Kastrup
>> 
>> Thanks for that. :) Now, I've added the archive to my toolbar for
>> future checking.
>> 
>> The full text follows (without HTML tags; I had used {raw}).
>> 
> ...
>
> Would this be better initially discussed on 'dev'? I don't know what
> the developer readership is on 'bug' compared to 'dev' but it must be
> larger?
>
> I had similar problems when trying to add snippets in the doc for
> midi, i.e. any snippet ending in midi.ly (a silly example would be
> when I creat a snippet called
> 'how-to-configure-instruments-in-midi.ly' or
> 'showing-context-props-using-midi.ly' and so on).
>
> As I didn't want to muck about with .gitignore I just ended up
> renaming the snippet accordingly but it did cause me some
> head-scratching for a while because doc failed to build.

Basically, having files both in the repository and in .gitignore is a
recipe for trouble.  The patterns should likely be made more
discriminatory.

-- 
David Kastrup