166139 - Add Win32 binary file extensions to global cvsignore list

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task, P3)

Description

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

CVS has a default list of file extensions that are automatically ignored, but
there are several types of files generated during the build on Win32 that are
not on this list.  They should be added to CVSROOT/cvsignore so that you don't
get a long list of "?" files if you build in the source directory.  At a
minimum, I think we should add:

*.dll
*.lib
*.exp
*.rc

There may be others as well (*.pdb comes to mind).

Comment 1

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

.exp is used by the cfm build in several places to export specific symbols. 
There's also a .exp that's used by zlib for win32 builds.  .rc is used in
various places as well.

We should be able to safely do:
.dll
.lib
.pdb

Comment 2

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

I should note that adding a file pattern to .cvsignore does not prevent you from
checking in or checking out files that match.  As far as I know, it only affects
what happens for files which are not present in the repository but are present
in your tree.

Comment 3

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

Umm, if that's the case, then why have we been manually adding Makefile to every
.cvsignore all of this time?  We should definitely test this.

Comment 4

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

I say this because "*.exe" is in the global ignore list by default, and yet we
have .exe files checked into the tree.  We also have .dll and .so files checked
into the ns repository and I don't think there are any problems there related to
.cvsignore.

Comment 5

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

*** Bug 169402 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Diego Biurrun]

Yes, please add Makefile to the global cvsignore, I have been providing patches
adding this to local .cvsignore files, but new keep appearing every day ;-)

Comment 7

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

Attachment: v1.0

Comment 8

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

-> leaf

Comment 9

[Jon Granrose]

cc blizzard in case he has time to help on this.

Comment 10

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

*** Bug 201315 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Daniel (Leaf) Nunes]

aye aye.

Comment 12

[Daniel (Leaf) Nunes]

Fish in the water!

Comment 13

[David G King]

*** Bug 212261 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***