djbalin•3w ago

Ignoring _generated in pull requests/git diff

Hey, does anybody know how to do this? It's suggested to not gitignore the _generated files for CI/CD reasons (and we concur with this), but we would still like to not have the files show up in our diffs for pull requests. We tried putting the belowin a .gitattributes file, but seems like that doesnt apply to github pull requests. Anybody have some advice for this? Thanks! 🇩🇰

/convex/_generated/* -diff
/convex/_generated/api.d.ts -diff
convex/_generated/api.d.ts -diff

/convex/_generated/* -diff
/convex/_generated/api.d.ts -diff
convex/_generated/api.d.ts -diff

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jamwt•3w ago

Hmm. I believe there is a pragma or something you can put at the top of files so that github collapses it and reecognizes it as generated

jamwt•3w ago

@djbalin this thread seems to suggest a slight different entry format for .gitattributes: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29053252/can-i-exclude-auto-generated-files-from-a-pull-request-in-github

Stack Overflow

Can I exclude auto-generated files from a pull request in GitHub?

Some pull request can get pretty large and often and I'd like to minimize noise for my team members that will be reviewing and merging my pull requests by removing auto-generated files. For exampl...

jamwt•3w ago

maybe try that? adding that linguist-generated=true might work

djbalinOP•3w ago

Thanks @jamwt , good find. Now the diff is collapsed/unrendered by default, that's nice :)) thanks