Grails 2.X .gitignore file
Posted by Venkatt Guhesan on November 16, 2013
With a new Grails 2.X project you run into challenges on which folders to check-in into a GIT repository. You want to remove any non-essential files that Grails can rebuild at run-time. And if you are using either GITHub or BitBucket for your GIT repo’s the default .gitignore file created or provided by GITHub is setup for configured for a Grails 1.X project and not a Grails 2.X project.
So here are a few simple steps to help you create the correct .gitignore file for a Grails 2.X project:
Step-1: Create the following .gitignore file under the root Grails project folder:
*.iws *Db.properties *Db.script .settings .classpath .project .idea eclipse stacktrace.log target target-eclipse /plugins /web-app/plugins /web-app/WEB-INF/classes web-app/WEB-INF/tld/c.tld web-app/WEB-INF/tld/fmt.tld
Step-2: Git does not allow you to check in empty (but essential folders). To avoid this you can run the following command:
find . -type d -empty -exec touch {}/.gitignore ;
The above command creates a empty “.gitignore” file below all folders. And since you now have non-empty folders, you can now check them in into Git so that if you check-out/clone the project in the future, you will have those essential but empty folders.
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