How to ignore Makefiles?

[Therkelsen]

Hey there guys

I have a repo for my semester project at school, and it says it's majorily a Make repo due to the damn Makefiles that are generated.
Can I somehow not vendor all Makefiles? I've tried in the .gitattributes like this:

# Auto detect text files and perform LF normalization
* text=auto
*.stash linguist-vendored=true
*.debug linguist-vendored=true
*.release linguist-vendored=true
*/Makefile linguist-vendored=true

I honestly though the */Makefile would do the trick, is there another way I could do it?

[lildude]

*/Makefile linguist-vendored=true
I honestly though the */Makefile would do the trick, is there another way I could do it?

You're almost there with this one. It's not quite doing what you want because * doesn't recurse (see previous discussions) so it will only match files like foo/Makefile, bar/Makefile, but not ano/dir/Makefile. I suspect all your files fall into the latter category.

To get the recursion you'd need to either use: **/Makefile linguist-vendored=true or just Makefile linguist-vendored=true.

As an aside, the =true is also optional so Makefile linguist-vendored will do the trick too.

[Therkelsen]

Perfect! Thank you so much :)