Re: [Doxygen-develop] Doxygen's code repository has moved to GitHub

[Dimitri v. H. <di...@st...>]

Hi Petr,

On May 20, 2013, at 17:06 , Petr Prikryl <Pr...@sk...> wrote:
>> [...] any tips are welcome ;-)
> 
> I suggest to introduce the .gitignore file at the root level
> with a directory that anyone can use for whatever. The reason
> is that I would like to use some "private" subdirectory that
> is near to doxygen's everything.
> 
> Sure, I can make my own fork, my own .gitignore, and I can
> secretly decide what the name of the directory is to be.
> However, the pull request/merge would not be that easy in such case.
> The goal is to keep the .gitignore public. Because of that,
> the private subdirectory should be named publicly.
> 
> It can be defined via prefix and the wildcard. I suggest 
> to put the following line to the .gitignore:
> 
> __*/
> 
> i.e. two underscores, star, slash. This way, any directory
> that starts with two underscores will be considered private.
> 
> This way, developers will be free to create whatever private
> subdirectory they like, wherever they like.
> 
> The rule "the two-underscore prefix" is easy to explain.

I just found this
http://365git.tumblr.com/post/519016351/three-ways-of-excluding-files
using the 3rd method (excludesfile in .gitconfig) you can add additional 
stuff to ignore. Seems like a better approach for private stuff.

I'll use this to exclude my own private stuff, 
and have a proper .gitignore that I can commit.

Regards,
  Dimitri