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DauntlessRob
DauntlessRob

Reputation: 795

Do you build a Git repository with the bower_components folder?

So perhaps this is a stupid question, I'm brand new to Git, and fairly new to bower. I've done a bunch of google searching and can't find an understandable answer at this time, so please be kind:

Using bower to install several repositories, such as jquery, foundation, and meanmenu, I've disocered that if I now create a repository out of my project, I find that it complains about a file within the bower folder (meanmenu's readme file, of all things).

So a warning ticked off in my head when I realized, if bower is supposed to be managing those files separately, than they probably shouldn't be included in my git repository, correct? So does that mean I have to somehow exclude the bower folder from project within git? so that when I create the whole thing, I leave out bower? and then if someone downloads my project, bower will auto install the necessary required packages for them?

Or am I way off base here?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 145

Answers (1)

Matt Kneiser
Matt Kneiser

Reputation: 2146

Yes you're right, it's pretty typical to have git ignore certain files/folders. For example, another package manager called npm creates a folder named node_modules that is generally excluded from git repos.

Create a file called .gitignore in the base of your git repo and put the name of the directory or files you want excluded in the file.

Some examples of gitignore files here: https://github.com/github/gitignore

Upvotes: 1

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