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

[James Lowe]

Hello,

On 25/08/15 18:48, markdblackwell wrote:
> Per
> https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitignore.html
> 
> "A gitignore file specifies intentionally untracked files that Git
> should ignore. Files already tracked by Git are not affected"
> 
> Aug 23, 2015; 6:21am, James Lowe wrote:
>> I had similar problems when trying to add snippets in the doc for
>> midi, i.e. any snippet ending in "-midi.ly"
> 
> Mark D. Blackwell wrote:
>> Because of these patterns in the .gitignore's, Git will ignore
>> changes to those files.
> 
> I misspoke. More accurately:
> 
> If a file is *already* in the repository, then its name matching a 
> .gitignore pattern won't cause Git to ignore changes to it; Git
> still will commit its changes easily.
> 
> Only *new* files which match a .gitignore pattern will be ignored,
> silently.
> 
> If these particular new files have names (or extensions, or path
> fragments, depending on the particular .gitignore pattern) similar
> to files present in the repository, then this is confusing.
> 
> Aug 23, 2015; 6:35am David Kastrup wrote:
>> Basically, having files both in the repository and in .gitignore
>> is a recipe for trouble. The patterns should likely be made more 
>> discriminatory.
> 
> In order to make the relevant patterns more accurately
> discriminatory, we might identify the programs (that we use) which
> generate noise files (i.e., files we want to exclude from the
> repository) of these kinds, and in which directories. Does anybody
> know?
> 
> Otherwise, we should try removing these particular .gitignore
> patterns, and see whether our procedures still generate any of
> these unwanted files—and in which directories. Then (obviously) we
> can reinstate the patterns, and make them more discriminatory.
> 
> Here's what Git blame says is the latest commit which changed the
> relevant lines in /.gitignore:
> 
> $ git blame .gitignore
> 
> 915e0d52 (Jan Nieuwenhuizen 2006-12-05 14:54:32 +0100  2)
> *-midi.ly 915e0d52 (Jan Nieuwenhuizen 2006-12-05 14:54:32 +0100  9)
> *.eps 915e0d52 (Jan Nieuwenhuizen 2006-12-05 14:54:32 +0100 26)
> *.svg
> 


Well I am not sure exactly what we're looking for but when I removed
these entries in my .gitignore and then ran both an out of and in tree
make doc, make test-baseline and a make check, I didn't get any files
showing up when I then did a 'git status'.

Is that good enough?

James