ci mode needs to bypass the "files to ignore" question about coala-quickstart HOT 15 CLOSED

CC @andreiraduta1101

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I'll try to fix this

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@marian-ald sure! I've assigned you this. If this is your first issue, take a look at coala.io/newcomer and if you get stuck anywhere, just ask on our Gitter channel :)

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Thanks 👍 😄

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@jayvdb Let's say I create a .gitignore file with 'touch'. What do you mean by "better .gitignore"?

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maybe a project specific gitignore file? For example node projects usually have a node_modules directory that should be in gitignore. If we have a tool that can recognizeif a project is a node project, then it can generate a relevant gitignore automatically.

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See https://github.com/github/gitignore

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I'm a little bit confused... There are a lot of gitignore files types in this project(github/gitignore). Should I modify the existing .gitignore from coala-quickstart/ and add some other files, or to reorganize it?

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This issue is not about the .gitignore in the coala-quickstart repo.
This issue is about bypassing the "files to ignore" question when coala-quickstart runs in CI mode. In CI mode, there is no user to answer the question. The process hangs indefinitely waiting for a user.

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Aaa... so it's something in coala-quickstart.py I guess

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Finally, I understood what the problem is. I can bypass the question, no problem.
So when coala runs in in CI mode, if there is a .gitignore file, file globs expressions are loaded from .gitignore. But if there is not a .gitignore, I should generate one, it's ok this? But I'm not sure how could I generate it...
@jayvdb You said it's enough to create it, it's ok if I just bypass the question and create the empty .gitignore?
Also @adtac

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@marian-ald creating an empty gitignore would automatically skip the question. What did you mean by

it's ok if I just bypass the question and create the empty .gitignore?

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You're right, it's the same thing 👍
So the question should be: It's ok if I just create the empty .gitignore? You said something about a tool for a better .gitignore.

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@marian-ald the tool is probably quite involved and surely beyond the scope of this issue. I just wanted to put the idea out there. (I'm thinking it could even be a GSoC project? CC @sils)

And indeed, they're not the same thing - creating an empty gitignore is probably just a workaround. Skipping the question without a gitignore is the better way (just do the "are we in CI mode" you'd do to create a gitignore at the place of the question).

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