[jira] [Reopened] (MAHOUT-1228) Cleanup .gitignore

["Stevo Slavic (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1228?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Stevo Slavic reopened MAHOUT-1228:
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I'm not just removing them, but replacing with a "target/" which matches not only target directory in root of the project but within any subdirectory, so including submodules. Same applies for ".settings/" directory. And that is the point of the ticket - to remove redundant unnecessary stuff from .gitignore, and it is valid.
See http://stackoverflow.com/a/995325/381140 and https://github.com/SpringSource/spring-framework/blob/master/.gitignore
                
> Cleanup .gitignore
> ------------------
>
>                 Key: MAHOUT-1228
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-1228
>             Project: Mahout
>          Issue Type: Task
>          Components: build
>    Affects Versions: 0.8
>            Reporter: Stevo Slavic
>            Priority: Trivial
>              Labels: eclipse, git, maven
>             Fix For: 0.8
>
>         Attachments: mahout-gitignore.patch
>
>
> .gitignore unnecessarily has duplicate entries for ignoring eclipse IDE specific files and directories, as well as Maven build output directory. For distribution module Maven build output directory is not ignored.

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