[fpc-devel] Submitting patches using git

[Sven Barth]

Am 20.07.2019 um 22:29 schrieb Ryan Joseph:
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>> On Jul 20, 2019, at 4:19 PM, Sven Barth via fpc-devel <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
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>> Why is your .gitignore so big? Mine looks like this:
> I’m sorry, what I wrote didn’t make any sense. I mean that after I delete .gitignore then all the .o etc.. files that it was ignoring now come flooding back into the project and so they need to be deleted. My git client handles it well enough but the 20k+ files stall out the UI a little. ;)
You can delete the .gitignore from the repository, but keep it around as 
an uncommitted file in the branch you're preparing.

For example I myself don't commit my .gitignore, but simply have it 
lying around as untracked file.

Regards,
Sven