[fpc-devel] Submitting patches using git

[Sven Barth]

Am 20.07.2019 um 18:58 schrieb Ryan Joseph:
> 3) remove .gitignore (which now includes thousands of .o/.ppu files which need to be deleted) and any other unrelated personal files.

Why is your .gitignore so big? Mine looks like this:

=== file begin ===

# ignore binary files
*.o
*.ppu
*.exe
*.pcp
*.a
*.dll
*.ppl
*.rsj
*.bak
*.lst
*.diff
*.patch
*.wpo
*.lps
# ignore fpmake files
*.fpm
# ignore other build files
*-stamp.*
fpcmade.*
backup/
bin/
units/
* - Kopie*
fpmake
lazbuild/
fpctests/
testoutput/
*.mod
ppc*

=== file end ===

(The "* - Kopie*" one is due to me sometimes doing copies with Windows 
Explorer when I want to split changes that "git add -p" can't handle, 
same for "*.mod" for manual copies on the command line ;) )

This keeps my status output relatively clean (and I'm sure that I could 
improve it further):

=== output begin ===

On branch master
Changes not staged for commit:
   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

         modified:   compiler/aasmcnst.pas
         modified:   compiler/ppcx64.lpi
         modified:   tests/test/units/fpcunit/testcomps.pp

Untracked files:
   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)

         .gitconfig
         .gitignore
         compile-rtl-objpas-testrunner.bat
         compiler/cextflt.pas
         compiler/utils/fpc
         compiler/utils/mka64ins
         compiler/utils/mkarmins
         compiler/utils/mkx86ins
         compiler/utils/ppudump
         compiler/utils/ppufiles
         compiler/utils/ppumove
         output.wp-pp.txt
         packages/dyncall/
         packages/rtl-objpas/tests/testrunner.rtlobjpas
         ppudump.txt
         q
         rtl-objpas-tests/
         rtl/embedded/arm/samd21g18a.pp
         tests/createlst
         tests/gparmake
         tests/output/
         tests/tbs/tb0658.pp
         tests/tstunits/i386-win32/
         tests/tstunits/tmp/
         tests/tstunits/x86_64-linux/
         tests/tstunits/x86_64-win64/
         tests/utils/concat
         tests/utils/digest
         tests/utils/dotest
         tests/utils/fail
         tests/utils/fptime
         tests/utils/testfail
         tests/webtbs/tw35019.pp
         tests/webtbs/tw35248.pp
         utils/importwinmd/
         windows-ppu.txt

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

=== output end ===

Regards,
Sven