Tracking generated files with Pathogen

[bs]

If you use Git to store all of your configs, and if a plugin generates a file in its own directory, it will remain as untracked content.

For example, YankRing generates a docs/tags file.
modified: bundle/YankRing.vim (untracked content)

This means that unless the mirror of VimScripts on Github adds a .gitignore entry for that file, Pathogen users are in trouble.

[tpope]

Create your own custom excludes list and ignore tags there.

git config --global core.excludesfile '~/.gitexcludes'
echo tags > ~/.gitexcludes

Way easier than modifying every plugin out there.

[bs]

Ah, that worked perfectly.