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This seems like bad advice. I've very rarely committed extra files by accident, but I would 100% forget to unignore files I meant to commit. If you're doing an initial setup step to gitignore everything, why not just do an initial setup step to gitignore the usual files? Make a template that you copy into all of your repos.
I'd incrementally add files until the project would load successfully after a fresh clone. Handling of subsequent concerns like lightmap data and external services became a lot easier having had the experience built up from zero.
I don’t ignore by default, but only stage the items I explicitly want. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been pairing with someone when they just say “git add .”, I’m always confused by that choice. I get it, but I’ve seen more problems arise from adding all than being consistently selective. To each their own.
- or you could stop scratching your head so hard and actually use the gitignore templates for every programming language officially recommended by github itself - https://github.com/github/gitignore - funny how I did not see a single comment talk about this
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I use "git add ." (or rather -A), but I will always do a "git status" first to make sure I'm not doing something silly. Of course you still have to be careful about subdirectories, which is why I usually also do a "git status" again before committing.
another `git status` then `git add .` folk here, it's a quick sanity check and then quicker and frankly it's just the habit I got into when I first started using git. I've never managed to get on with any UI for basic git tasks, they always end up been slower.
…is what I would say if I had no filter. But it does make sense what I see in PRs sometimes - have you proofread any of this before pushing?
This seems like bad advice. I've very rarely committed extra files by accident, but I would 100% forget to unignore files I meant to commit. If you're doing an initial setup step to gitignore everything, why not just do an initial setup step to gitignore the usual files? Make a template that you copy into all of your repos.
You should have editor specific and platform specific files in your global gitignore. https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/src/branch/master/.gitignor... That fixes the problem of every project enumerating the settings files for every editor. Then, as others have said, you should commit only the files you intend to commit; and ignore the files that you don’t intend to commit. This shouldn’t be difficult if you’re reviewi…
This seems like bad advice. I've very rarely committed extra files by accident, but I would 100% forget to unignore files I meant to commit. If you're doing an initial setup step to gitignore everything, why not just do an initial setup step to gitignore the usual files? Make a template that you copy into all of your repos.