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Ruby Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Build a Todo List Application with Rails 4 Editing Todo Items

Steven Worley
Steven Worley
3,615 Points
Posted by Steven Worley
Steven Worley
3,615 Points

tmp files being commited to git

Why are my tmp files being commited to git? Does it matter?

Jason had 9 files changed, I had 29! 

git commit -m "Add specs and code for editing todo items"
[master e7dd9ce] Add specs and code for editing todo items
 29 files changed, 3358 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 app/views/todo_items/edit.html.erb
 create mode 100644 spec/features/todo_items/edit_spec.rb
 create mode 100644 tmp/cache/assets/development/sass/65745130395085d55bde1508aa94b41972a627d2/todo_items.css.scssc
 create mode 100644 tmp/cache/assets/development/sprockets/1583d6d32f03b1b7857fff67162b857b
 create mode 100644 tmp/cache/assets/development/sprockets/3cb8b6cf371ff7cec4e460fc87bdea83
 create mode 100644 tmp/cache/assets/development/sprockets/42463d43ac24a0d7cb636a43b7eac7f1
 create mode 100644 tmp/cache/assets/development/sprockets/61fb123e959be29a9e1adb6a1cba0f8a
 create mode 100644 tmp/cache/assets/development/sprockets/7bbcc918ce4ac5685af3d9e074d2596a
 create mode 100644 tmp/cache/assets/development/sprockets/e7abb841aca6a05f68bc2f393263bbca
 create mode 100644 tmp/pids/server.pid

2 Answers

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

It's probably unnecessary. You could add the tmp folder to your .gitignore file and it wouldn't track them anymore.

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points
Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

That is weird. Your .gitignore file in the project directory should have had these lines by default:

# Ignore all logfiles and tempfiles.
/log/*.log
/tmp

If it doesn't - add them.