Although svn remains the primary source control version of FPC, some people (me included) prefer git for developing it. It would be helpful for those people if FPC repository included .gitignore file is git analog to svn:ignore property.
This file should be placed in the root directory.
Attached is the file I use -- users of non-windows platforms may wish to add other items.

Wouldn't it be better to run automatically
git svn show-ignore > .gitignore
and commit it if something changed
on the git svn mirror?

Florian Klaempfl wrote

Wouldn't it be better to run automatically git svn show-ignore > .gitignore and commit it if something changed on the git svn mirror?

Probably yes -- I have no preference about how the ignore file is produced, I just ask to add it ;-)

Alexander Klenin kirjoitti perjantai 11 maaliskuu 2011 11:38:25:

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 19:20, Florian Klaempfl

Hi Alexander

Do you have a git-svn link and use it also for committing changes to SVN server? Like what is explained here for Lazarus:

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_git-svn

$ git svn show-ignore > .gitignore
takes quite long but you need to do it only once.

Juha