[racket-dev] How to avoid to modify .gitignore when pull request

On Dec 13, 2012, at 6:37 AM, David Van Horn wrote:

> On 12/13/12 9:22 AM, Chen Xiao wrote:
>> I fork the codebase on my local computer. Then I .configure & make &
>> make install, as a result, there are many compiled things like bin or
>> *.o files.
>> 
>> To avoid add them to my commit, I modify .gitignore to ignore them all.
>> 
>> But I can't avoid add .gitignore at all, isn't it?
>> 
>> So how do you solve this problem?
> 
> I suggest building in a build/ directory as described in src/README. There's already a .gitignore directive to ignore that directory.

+1.

I build racket all the darn time, with local changes, and I never have to fiddle with .gitignore.

John
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