Re: .gitignore for some of cygwin files

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 15:40, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
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> On 06/09/2011 08:12 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:34, Radosław Smogura<rsmogura@softperience.eu>
>>  wrote:
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>>> After compilation I got big list of differences about binaries and other
>>> files. You may see it in patch.
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>> Hmm. Does this really affect just cygwin, and not also mingw?
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> Yes, indeed.
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>> I know
>> msvc builds out-of-tree, but mingw doesn't, iirc? WHere do the EXEs go
>> there?
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> The .exe files go exactly where linked executables go on Unix. We could add
> .gitignore lines for them just as we have for Unix, e.g. by adding
> "/initdb.exe" to src/bin/initdb.gitignore, or more simply by adding a global
> rule for "*.exe" as the patch proposes.

I think a global exclude for *.exe makes perfect sense. I don't see
why we would ever want to commit a .exe file to the repository...

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