I've just started to learn C (using Thinking In C) and I'm wondering about what files I should be ignoring in a C project's git repository.
No suggestion can be too obvious -- I'm a total noob. Thanks!
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I guess there will be a few generated files that you don't wan't to be sticking in your repo (assuming your build output dir is in your git heirachy):
- object files (.o, o.obj)
- libraries (.lib)
- DLLs, shared objects (.so, .dll)
- Executables (.exe, a.out ?)
GIT ignore files are something I tend to do iteratively. "Hey, I don't need those things in my repo" ...
Edit: re dmckee's comment
Yep, you definately want to be ignoring swap files, temp files etc. I have the following as a baseline for my .gitignore:
- *.swp
- .~
- thumbs.db
Cannonade
2009-05-11 03:39:51
If you editor makes automatic backups (ala emacs' *~ files), you can probably do without those too.
dmckee
2009-05-11 03:42:57
Usually you put ignoring of generated files in version controlled and transferred `.gitignore` file (so everybody will have generated files ignored), but ignoring backup files and other types of files depending on your environment (backup files can be *~ or *.bak) in not transferred repository .git/info/exclude (or in core.excludesfile set in ~/.gitconfig).
Jakub Narębski
2009-05-11 09:52:50
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A:
You can also setup your build to happen in a subdirectory say build and then you can ignore the whole thing inside .gitignore
build/
And you're done.
Flame
2009-05-13 15:53:01