On 15 March 2013 03:52, Alexander Huemer <alexander.hue...@xx.vu> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 05:51:14PM +0100, Christoph Lohmann wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:51:14 +0100 Christian Hesse <l...@eworm.de> >> wrote: >> > this introduces file .gitignore and makes git ignore files generates >> > on build process. >> >> Why is this needed? When suckless moves to the next hip vcs on the block >> another file needs to be introduced. So: No, just don’t add these files >> to be tracked and the changes will not be committed as change. >> > > It's best practice to have a .gitignore file. > I recommend it for all suckless subprojects. > You want to explicitly tell the VCS which files are not of interest for > it, it can not know by itself.
Yes it can, just don't add them to the index... why would you arbitrarily do `git add .' or similar? Just use git in the way that it is *supposed* to be used. Chris
