Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add git format-patch produced patches to .gitignore

From: Michael J Gruber <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 16:05:41 +0200

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason venit, vidit, dixit 15.05.2010 23:22:
> Change Git's own .gitignore so that patches produced with git
> format-patch don't show up as untracked.
> 

Does the git build process call format-patch? No! The .gitignore we
distribute is meant for things the build process creates, not for
imposing a specific workflow on developers.

If you want to ignore format patch output, simply use .git/info/excludes
or a global excludes file, but please don't force everyone else to live
with that or work around it.

Cheers,
Michael

> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  .gitignore |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
> index dbf1b90..039d99c 100644
> --- a/.gitignore
> +++ b/.gitignore
> @@ -203,3 +203,4 @@
>  *.pdb
>  /Debug/
>  /Release/
> +[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-*.patch