Track generated code and data

[szepeviktor]

Could we have a list of generated code/data in .gitattributes?

# An example
/package-lock.json linguist-generated

Something like this.

package-lock.json
packages/docs/site/static/diagrams.excalidraw
packages/php-wasm/compile/build-assets/zlib/
packages/php-wasm/node/public/
packages/php-wasm/node/src/test/test-data/
packages/php-wasm/web/public/php_*
packages/playground/remote/public/wp-*
packages/playground/remote/src/wordpress/

⚠️ I do not know the internals of this repo. This is purely a guess.

From #678

[adamziel]

@szepeviktor I'm not super familiar with .gitattributes – what would be an advantage of maintaining such a list?

[szepeviktor]

For example. I was checking to typos in the repository and was not able to distinguish source code from generated code/data.

Another example. GitHub displays generated files differently.
https://github.com/github-linguist/linguist/blob/master/docs/overrides.md#summary

[szepeviktor]

packages/php-wasm/compile/build-assets/zlib/ is "linguist-vendored"

[adamziel]

Thank you for explaining!

[adamziel]

Your guess was quite close @szepeviktor. This should be the complete list:

package-lock.json linguist-generated
packages/docs/site/static/diagrams.excalidraw linguist-vendored
packages/php-wasm/compile/build-assets/zlib/ linguist-vendored
packages/php-wasm/node/public/ linguist-generated
packages/php-wasm/node/src/test/test-data/ linguist-generated
packages/php-wasm/web/public/kitchen-sink/ linguist-generated
packages/php-wasm/web/public/light/ linguist-generated
packages/playground/remote/public/wp-* linguist-generated
packages/playground/remote/src/wordpress/ linguist-generated
packages/playground/blueprints/public/ linguist-generated

[adamziel]

Shipped with some tweaks in #688

[szepeviktor]

Thank you.
This command shows what is up: git ls-files --cached | git check-attr --stdin --all