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Two Git ignore files nobody told me about

95 points · 66 comments · faithraven

  1. cxr · · focus · HN ↗

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    1. quietbritishjim · · focus · HN ↗
      Or, you could have a build system that does a 100% out-of-tree build into ./build, and then if the build is broken you delete that one directory. You hardly need git to help you with that.
      1. cxr · · focus · HN ↗

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        1. quietbritishjim · · focus · HN ↗
          Get a new job? You can't be that "in charge of" a repo if you can't enforce rules this basic. In fact, I don't understand how you can enforce something as (being polite) unusual as banning .gitignore and yet can't enforce build system hygiene.
          1. cxr · · focus · HN ↗
            Believe it or not, there are people whose interactions with software are not limited to projects that they wrote and have control over.
        2. [deleted] · · focus · HN ↗

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      2. cxr · · focus · HN ↗
        > Or, you could have a build system that does a 100% out-of-tree build

        I'm not sure what effect you think properly functioning build scripts in my project(s) are going to have on the broken build systems encountered in other projects. Those broken build systems continue to be broken, despite my projects' build scripts continuing to work as expected. Please advise.

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