Re: [PATCH] Add git format-patch produced patches to .gitignore

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 07:52, Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] wrote:

Pavan Kumar Sunkara wrote:

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore

@@ -203,3 +203,4 @@

 *.pdb
 /Debug/
 /Release/
+[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-*.patch

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git format-patch -M origin/master -o outgoing/

So, my patches will be in subdirectory outgoing.
But the regex rule in this patch won't be able to hide them.

What do u want to do in that case ?

Try it out.

Right, patches in outgoing/ will be ignored too because the rule isn't
prefixed with /, so it works regardless of whether the file is in a
subdirectory or not.

In fact, I was worried that this patch would trigger a similar
problem: maybe some test data directory contains format-patch
output?  In fact none do, so I like the patch.

None do, there's no file that matches '????-*.patch' in Git. Even if
there was you could still 'git add -f' it, which wouldn't be that big
of a problem because it would be part of some rarely touched test
suite in t/*.