Re: [Shotwell] Updating .gitignore

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

> I've noticed the new make gitignore target from git.mk. How should I go
> about to add new ignores (e.g. MapWidget.c) - manually or generate them
> using one of those new targets?

C files should show up automatically IIRC.

> Then, I've noticed that after a build there are tons of generated files
> (.page, .m4, .mo, .stamp, ...) that are marked as untracked and should
> probably be listed in .gitignore.
> Also, some rules like /*~ or /.*.sw[nop] that would make sense to be
> matched in any subdir (oddly, there is a rule /**/.*.swp). Can we
> manually fix up .gitignore without messing up the generation?

Tbh I haven't really understood yet the logic behind that git.mk script.