Re: MinGW patches

[Neil Jerram]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> For my convenience, I prefer to prepare a real ChangeLog entry, then
> copy that to a commit message, which leaves a ChangeLog file around.
> May I add ChangeLog to libguile/.gitignore, so that ChangeLog is not
> flagged by "git status"?

In case you don't already know: to-be-ignored files can also be added to
.git/info/exclude.  In that case the ignoring is part of your own local
metadata, and will usefully apply retrospectively to your whole
repository, rather than being committed at a particular point to the
repository content.

Regards,
     Neil