improvement idea
Currently,
when developers run flutter pub get or test the app locally, Flutter auto-generates platform-specific build files
linux/flutter/generated_plugin_registrant.cc
linux/flutter/generated_plugins.cmake
macos/Flutter/GeneratedPluginRegistrant.swift
pubspec.lock
windows/flutter/generated_plugin_registrant.cc
windows/flutter/generated_plugins.cmake
depending on local dependencies.
This creates dirty working directories and forces contributors to manually discard changes before committing.
To improve the Developer Experience (DX) and prevent unwanted files from being committed, these paths should be added to .gitignore.
My proposed solution
- I will append the specific paths of the auto-generated platform files to the
.gitignore at the root of the project.
- Run
git rm --cached <file_paths> to untrack these files from the Git repository history so they immediately stop causing merge conflicts for new branches.
By taking these simple steps, we completely automate ignore rules, keeping all future Pull Requests clean from randomly generated machine-specific code.
I am currently working on a PR for this to help out the team.
improvement idea
Currently,
when developers run
flutter pub getor test the app locally, Flutter auto-generates platform-specific build filesdepending on local dependencies.
This creates dirty working directories and forces contributors to manually discard changes before committing.
To improve the Developer Experience (DX) and prevent unwanted files from being committed, these paths should be added to
.gitignore.My proposed solution
By taking these simple steps, we completely automate ignore rules, keeping all future Pull Requests clean from randomly generated machine-specific code.
I am currently working on a PR for this to help out the team.