.gitignores in the cpp-* trees

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Thu Apr 28 12:00:05 EDT 2016


> As I add the VC10 and VC14 directories I'm tripping over these being smeared
> across the tree quite a bit.  Judging from what you have been doing in
> log4shib you want to get to a situation of having as much as possible in the
> top level.  Am I correct in assuming this?

Yes, I think that's how git normally should work, or at least I assumed so. It recurses ignores unlike svn, so aside from just the obnoxiousness of having all the extra files, I assumed that implied it prefers one copy.

> In case like samltest where in that directory or below we want to ignore
> .cpp files would you add a .gitignore there or just add samltest\**\*.cpp to
> the top level one?

I'd stick with top level, I think it's simpler.

I believe the log4shib tree is mostly clean. Your patches are in, and I've got it building after generating a zip dist on Debian.

-- Scott



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