#876 SVN does not ignore build related files,

[nikhilgupta10]

When compiling GridLAB-D from source a large number of build-related temp and output files are created. These files rightly don't belong in the SVN repository, but because they are not on the ignore list, they are included in the list of changes for svn status or related GUI views.

Can we add such temp files to the SVN ignore list to clean-up developer's svn workspace?

(On OSX) the biggest culprits are: .dep .dirstamp both of which are created in nearly every directory.

Other seemingly easy to ignore: *.m4

There are many others, including the makefile plus configure, libtool, and gridlab executables created during the build process. ,

[nikhilgupta10]

nikhilgupta10 imported these comments from Sourceforge: The user dchassin does not exist anymore. Therefore assigning this to afisher1. "jcfuller":- assigned_to: Jason Fuller

• Priority: none --> critical ,

  "jcfuller":Good idea. They used to be on the ignore list.

But, we've found out in the last week that our SVN tree is pretty wrecked. Over the next month, as we clean it up, we'll add this as a task.,

"dchassin":- status: new --> accepted

• assigned_to: Jason Fuller --> David P. Chassin

• Milestone: Unscheduled --> Knothole Post ,

  "dchassin":One quick way to improve svn status output is to use svn -q status. This option causes status to ignore unversioned files.,

  "bpalmintier":That is a nice trick, will get some use in the few project I use that are still in SVN. Still doesn't quite acheive the same as having such files in the ignore list since there can be legitiamate new (ie unversioned) files that should be added or might otherwise want to be listed with svn status. Also GUI's may or may not make it easy to ignore unversioned files.,