From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>, Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Subject: BUG: The .gitignore rules can't be made to cross submodule boundaries
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 20:33:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACBZZX41yrAtBvkVeL9Q=2_TxcwrDXh55gu3qLN54P_go318OA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
When I was adding the sha1collisiondetection submodule to git.git I
noticed that building git would dirty the submodule.
This is because our own Makefile adds .depend/ directories. I hacked
around it by just getting the upstream project accept carrying an
ignore rule for that around:
https://github.com/cr-marcstevens/sha1collisiondetection/commit/e8397b26
A workaround for this is to have the Makefile add such a rule to
.git/modules/sha1collisiondetection/info/exclude, but that's less
convenient than being able to distribute it as a normal .gitignore
rule.
The submodule.<name>.ignore config provides an overly big hammer to
solve this, it would be better if we had something like
submodule.<name>.gitignore=<path>. Then we could have e.g.
.gitignore.sha1collisiondetection which would be added to whatever
rules the repo's own .gitignore provides.
next reply other threads:[~2017-05-22 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-22 18:33 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2017-05-23 9:17 ` BUG: The .gitignore rules can't be made to cross submodule boundaries Johannes Schindelin
2017-05-23 9:55 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2017-05-23 17:51 ` Stefan Beller
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