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Two Git ignore files nobody told me about

95 points · 66 comments · faithraven

cxr · 1790173401 · focus · HN ↗
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1. quietbritishjim · 1790174417 · 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 · 1790174778 · focus · HN ↗
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    quietbritishjim · 1790175762 · 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.
    cxr · 1790207159 · 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.

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