[OpenAFS-devel] Re: Please check Git version on OpenAFS build slaves

[Andrew Deason]

I wasn't directed anywhere for discussion on this, so... it's going to
-devel.

On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 21:05:12 -0500
Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@openafs.org> wrote:

[buildbot pulls too much stuff when .buildbot.sourcedata is deleted]
> To correct this behavior we modified the clean rule to be
> 
>   git clean -X -f -e !.buildbot.sourcedata
> 
> Unfortunately, not every version of git supports the -e option and not
> all of those that support it do the right thing when -e and -X are
> combined. Please check the version of git installed on your buildbot
> slave and ensure that it is at least version 1.7.9.

Is there any reason we can't just add this to .gitignore?

I don't think I need to do anything for this, but it just seems like
it'd be easier for the other slave maintainers.

-- 
Andrew Deason
adeason@sinenomine.net