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Storing built copies in the repository makes it hard to keep a fork

Open akatrevorjay opened this issue 7 years ago • 1 comments

Hi. Love what you've done here.

I run my extensions locally and I pick a time that I update them all as I see fit. In this case,. I even have a couple personal changes, nothing big. I also don't want them to auto update, so I update the application IDs in the manifest.

Unfortunately, it makes it hard to git pull from any fork when the build extension contents are stored in the repo.

Would you be against at least adding that to gitignore? That way I can at least pull without writing a shitty script around git to ignore those files. Gross ;)

akatrevorjay avatar Mar 09 '18 22:03 akatrevorjay

Oh, actually, this doesn't store the built exts (many do, sorry!)

The manifests however, would you be okay with a PR to make those generated from a template instead of putting them /extensions/{browser}?

akatrevorjay avatar Mar 09 '18 22:03 akatrevorjay