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Conditionally ignore files in git
I'm using git for LaTeX projects and am in a little dilemma about how to best ignore files.
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if I add
*.pdfto my.gitignorefile, I keep forgetting to force add included graphics -
if I don't add it, I keep accidentally adding the compiled documents, which are often quite large and blow up my repository sizes
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and even if I remember to add specific filename of the compiled pdf to my gitignore, then dozens of them will clutter the ignore files in my bigger repos and I'll need to add ignore files even for the smaller repos for which normally would not need anything special in addition to my global ignore file.
Is there any way to solve this dilemma? Something like automatically ignoring all .pdf files for which a .tex of the same name exists?
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Per man gitignore there are four sources of patterns for ignoring files. Command-line arguments are probably too much hassle; .gitignore is itself version-controlled (unless you include .gitignore in it), which creates complications. That leaves $GIT_DIR/info/exclude and the file listed in config variable core.excludesFile. Sadly, it seems that $GIT_DIR/info/exclude has to be a file and not a directory whose contents are concatenated.
A somewhat complicated solution which probably doesn't conflict directly with anything you're already doing would be:
- Create a script which updates
$GIT_DIR/info/excludeto list the .pdf files for which there are .tex files. If you want to be really cautious you could delimit a section of the file with comments and replace only that section. -
aliasgitto invoke the script and then pass the arguments along to/usr/bin/git. (In practice this probably means making the script itself pass the arguments along, and make the script the alias).
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