From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
To: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>,
"Philip Oakley via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net>,
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 20/23] .gitignore: touch up the entries regarding Visual Studio
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2019 14:20:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9eed02e7-7e2d-4ae3-6c08-ab17b3c92fb6@iee.email> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190825120741.GM20404@szeder.dev>
Hi Szeder,
On 25/08/2019 13:07, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 01:08:14PM -0700, Philip Oakley via GitGitGadget wrote:
>> Add the Microsoft .manifest pattern, and do not anchor the 'Debug'
>> and 'Release' entries at the top-level directory, to allow for
>> multiple projects (one per target).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
>> ---
>> .gitignore | 5 +++--
>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
>> index e096e0a51c..e7bb15d301 100644
>> --- a/.gitignore
>> +++ b/.gitignore
>> @@ -230,6 +230,7 @@
>> *.ipdb
>> *.dll
>> .vs/
>> -/Debug/
>> -/Release/
>> +*.manifest
> This new line ignores the tracked file 'compat/win32/git.manifest'
> that was added fairly recently in fe90397604 (mingw: embed a manifest
> to trick UAC into Doing The Right Thing, 2019-06-27).
>
> I wonder whether that's intentional or accidental.
>
> I'm inclined to think that it's merely accidental, because, as far as
> I understand, this is an old-ish patch from times when there wasn't
> any 'git.manifest' file in tree, and simply noone noticed that in the
> meantime we got one. But I have no idea about how a Git build with
> Visual Studio is supposed to work, so it doesn't really matter what
> I'm inclined to think :)
>
At the time, it was just one of the many non-source files that were
generated by Visual Studio that cluttered the status list and also could
accidentally added to the tracked files.
The newly added .manifest file does appear to be there to 'trick' the
Windows User Access Control (UAC) which otherwise can be an annoyance to
'regular' users.
Philip
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-25 13:20 UTC|newest]
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2019-07-18 13:19 [PATCH 00/24] Reinstate support for Visual Studio Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-18 13:19 ` [PATCH 01/24] Vcproj.pm: auto-generate GUIDs Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-18 13:19 ` [PATCH 02/24] Vcproj.pm: list git.exe first to be startup project Philip Oakley via GitGitGadget
2019-07-18 13:19 ` [PATCH 03/24] Vcproj.pm: do not configure VCWebServiceProxyGeneratorTool Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-18 13:19 ` [PATCH 04/24] Vcproj.pm: urlencode '<' and '>' when generating VC projects Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-18 13:19 ` [PATCH 05/24] contrib/buildsystems: ignore invalidcontinue.obj Philip Oakley via GitGitGadget
2019-07-18 13:19 ` [PATCH 06/24] contrib/buildsystems: ignore irrelevant files in Generators/ Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-18 13:19 ` [PATCH 07/24] contrib/buildsystems: fix misleading error message Philip Oakley via GitGitGadget
2019-07-18 13:19 ` [PATCH 08/24] contrib/buildsystems: handle quoted spaces in filenames Philip Oakley via GitGitGadget
2019-07-18 13:19 ` [PATCH 09/24] contrib/buildsystems: ignore gettext stuff Philip Oakley via GitGitGadget
2019-07-18 13:19 ` [PATCH 10/24] contrib/buildsystems: redirect errors of the dry run into a log file Philip Oakley via GitGitGadget
2019-07-18 13:19 ` [PATCH 11/24] contrib/buildsystems: optionally capture the dry-run in a file Philip Oakley via GitGitGadget
2019-07-18 13:19 ` [PATCH 12/24] contrib/buildsystems: error out on unknown option Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-18 13:19 ` [PATCH 13/24] contrib/buildsystems: handle the curl library option Philip Oakley via GitGitGadget
2019-07-18 13:19 ` [PATCH 15/24] contrib/buildsystems: also handle -lexpat Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-18 13:19 ` [PATCH 14/24] contrib/buildsystems: handle libiconv, too Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-18 13:19 ` [PATCH 16/24] contrib/buildsystems: handle options starting with a slash Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-18 13:19 ` [PATCH 17/24] contrib/buildsystems: add a backend for modern Visual Studio versions Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-18 13:19 ` [PATCH 18/24] msvc: add a Makefile target to pre-generate the Visual Studio solution Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-18 13:19 ` [PATCH 19/24] vcxproj: also link-or-copy builtins Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-18 13:19 ` [PATCH 20/24] .gitignore: touch up the entries regarding Visual Studio Philip Oakley via GitGitGadget
2019-07-18 13:19 ` [PATCH 21/24] .gitignore: ignore Visual Studio's temporary/generated files Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-18 13:19 ` [PATCH 22/24] bin-wrappers: append `.exe` to target paths if necessary Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-18 13:19 ` [PATCH 23/24] t5505,t5516: create .git/branches/ when needed Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-18 20:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-07-19 14:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-07-19 15:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-07-19 15:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-07-19 16:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-07-18 13:19 ` [PATCH 24/24] git: avoid calling aliased builtins via their dashed form Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 00/23] Reinstate support for Visual Studio Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 01/23] Vcproj.pm: auto-generate GUIDs Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 02/23] Vcproj.pm: list git.exe first to be startup project Philip Oakley via GitGitGadget
2019-07-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 03/23] Vcproj.pm: do not configure VCWebServiceProxyGeneratorTool Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 04/23] Vcproj.pm: urlencode '<' and '>' when generating VC projects Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 05/23] contrib/buildsystems: ignore invalidcontinue.obj Philip Oakley via GitGitGadget
2019-07-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 06/23] contrib/buildsystems: ignore irrelevant files in Generators/ Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 07/23] contrib/buildsystems: fix misleading error message Philip Oakley via GitGitGadget
2019-07-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 08/23] contrib/buildsystems: handle quoted spaces in filenames Philip Oakley via GitGitGadget
2019-07-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 09/23] contrib/buildsystems: ignore gettext stuff Philip Oakley via GitGitGadget
2019-07-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 10/23] contrib/buildsystems: redirect errors of the dry run into a log file Philip Oakley via GitGitGadget
2019-07-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 11/23] contrib/buildsystems: optionally capture the dry-run in a file Philip Oakley via GitGitGadget
2019-07-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 12/23] contrib/buildsystems: error out on unknown option Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 13/23] contrib/buildsystems: handle the curl library option Philip Oakley via GitGitGadget
2019-07-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 14/23] contrib/buildsystems: handle libiconv, too Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 15/23] contrib/buildsystems: also handle -lexpat Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 16/23] contrib/buildsystems: handle options starting with a slash Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 18/23] msvc: add a Makefile target to pre-generate the Visual Studio solution Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 17/23] contrib/buildsystems: add a backend for modern Visual Studio versions Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 19/23] vcxproj: also link-or-copy builtins Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 20/23] .gitignore: touch up the entries regarding Visual Studio Philip Oakley via GitGitGadget
2019-08-25 12:07 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-08-25 13:20 ` Philip Oakley [this message]
2019-08-25 19:09 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-08-25 22:21 ` Philip Oakley
2019-08-26 9:10 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-08-28 11:34 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-08-26 14:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-08-26 15:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-07-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 21/23] .gitignore: ignore Visual Studio's temporary/generated files Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 22/23] bin-wrappers: append `.exe` to target paths if necessary Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 23/23] git: avoid calling aliased builtins via their dashed form Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget
2019-07-29 21:56 ` [PATCH v2 00/23] Reinstate support for Visual Studio Junio C Hamano
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