Re: Importing from tarballs; add, rm, update-index?

Shawn O. Pearce [off-list ref] wrote:

"Horst H. von Brand" [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Please don't. It would add e.g. the .class and .o and all ~ files, and all
other junk you have lying around (test cases, test run output, ...). It
isn't /that/ much more work after creating a new file to record its
existence...

  echo \*.class >>.gitignore
  echo \*.o >>.gitignore
  git add .gitignore

doesn't work for some reason?

Because each time I build a bit of scaffolding, or have a new test output,
or... I'd have to add them to .gitignore. I'd very much prefer tracking
real contents and not junk.
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