[rtems-libbsd commit] Remove junk folders.

[Gedare Bloom]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 4:25 PM Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
>
> On 12/6/19 9:22 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> > On 12/06/2019 09:15, Chris Johns wrote:
> >> Module:    rtems-libbsd
> >> Branch:    master
> >> Commit:    c099dbe9f66221372838ed585b35cfd3ac002d3f
> >> Changeset:
> >> http://git.rtems.org/rtems-libbsd/commit/?id=c099dbe9f66221372838ed585b35cfd3ac002d3f
> >>
> >>
> >> Author:    Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org>
> >> Date:      Wed Jun 12 17:13:48 2019 +1000
> >>
> >> Remove junk folders.
> >
> > They are probably junk folders,
>
> On a Mac they are updated and changed by Finder and I have no control over this.
>
> > however, they are included in the Apple source archives.
>
> Oh I am sorry, I did not know where they came from. They can appear by accident
> in a repo if a directory is added and I assumed, wrongly, this is what had happened.
>
> I will email Apple and ask them about these files being included and if that is
> something they could look into.
>
> > Please don't clean up this directory since this makes updates more
> > difficult.
>
> Sure I understand this and it makes sense however that means anyone, such as me,
> using libbsd on a Mac will see these files as changed or deleted which is how I
> became aware of them. This becomes an on going pain as managing any commits or
> updates requires these files get checked out again and again with the hope they
> do not change while playing with git, something we do not have control over. It
> also changes the state of the repo to modified when it is not.
>
> I think including an any meta-data related files for any OS or desktop tool in
> our repos is only going to cause problems for someone. We should endeavor to
> avoid doing this where possible.
>

You could put them to .gitignore in the root of rtems-libbsd.git and
only update them explicity with git-add -f option.

> Chris
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