Until today, I did not make up my mind about what to do with configuration files, created by e.g. VS Code.
Certainly, I do not want to commit them,
but putting it into every’s repository .gitignore file is also cumbersome - and sometimes it is not possible.
I always do a git add -u to avoid accidentally adding a venv or similar,
so it did not really matter.
Except…
❯ ./batou deploy staging
Running unclean installation from requirements.txt
Ensuring unclean install ...
batou/2.2.2 (cpython 3.10.0-alpha7, Linux 5.4.0-72-generic x86_64)
======================================================= Preparing ========================================================
main: Loading environment `staging`...
main: Verifying repository ...
ERROR: Your repository has uncommitted changes.
I am refusing to deploy in this situation as the results will be unpredictable.
Please commit and push first.
?? .vscode/
============================================ DEPLOYMENT FAILED (during load) =============================================
I could not deploy, as batou refuses to deploy from an unclean repository.
globally ignore
So the solution was to globally ignore the .vscode folder.
echo .vscode/ >> ~/.gitignore
git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore
but …
But what if you want the configuration files to be committed… just for this one repository?
git add --force ./vscode