On 10/25/2012 06:44 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 10/25/2012 04:38 PM, Laine Stump wrote:
On 10/25/2012 06:15 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
I did a 'git add .', then realized that it ended up trying to add the emacs lock file for a corresponding file that I had not yet saved all my edits; thankfully I noticed it in time. Since we already exclude other temporary files, this makes the most sense for preventing such a mistake from actually hitting upstream.
* .gitignore: Add .#* to the exclude list. ---
If you don't like this patch, then I will be updating my local .git/info/exclude file; I could understand someone wanting to reject this patch on the grounds that 'make' does not create any temporary files under this name, but only my choice of editor (and not everyone shares that choice in editor). So I'll wait for an ack instead of claiming the trivial rule.
Well, don't we also ignore *~? That's created by an editor too. Yep.
ACK. Pushed, before anyone else has a chance to argue against us :)
What would be *really* nice is if git could give a *warning* if you tried to do git add . and it found any of those files - it would prevent the cases where you forget to save a file that you've modified. (For that matter, it would be nice if make did that :-)