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Re: [ptp-user] Synchronized C++ Project Builds Delete Files in .gitignore
Hi Josh,

I'm not sure what you mean by an "include" filter. Unfortunately, there may be a regression with the use of .gitignore files:


PTP sync projects are designed to mirror a remote directory (be as if you were working on the remote machine), except
for not sync'ing files explicitly filtered by the user, such as large data or binary files. The code contains special logic to
correctly handle project-level Git files, such as .gitignore and a .git directory, but that always proved to be a bit tricky and
fragile.

One possible workaround would be to remove (or rename) the .gitignore file while working in Eclipse and restore it when
you submit the work to your project's repository. This could probably be automated, depending on your workflow. Git hooks
might be useful.

John


On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 8:38 AM Davidson, Josh <josh.davidson@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I’m attempting to use PTP on a remote C++ project.  I’m close to having everything working, but one stumbling block I’m running into is that when I do a build on the remote host (or a custom make target), files that are in the project repository’s .gitignore are deleted from the remote sync directory.  I’ve attempted to exclude .gitignore as a sync filter.  That does prevent it from getting sync’d to the remote host, but still results in ignored files getting deleted once a sync occurs.  If I manually add an “include” filter to the files in question, I can get things working, but run into frequent conflicts if switching between remote and local host.

The project does perform and out-of-source build, but that’s in <project_root>/build, which is excluded in our projects .gitignore (along with a number of other generated files).  What is happening now if we do a remote build, everything in our git exclusions get blown away; basically negating the build on the remote system.  Is there any way to fix that short of adding include filters to negate every build output and cursing each time there’s a sync conflict?

Thanks,
Josh
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