Storing generated files in Git

Question

We have a reasonably large, and far too messy code base that we wish to migrate to using Git. At the moment, it\'s a big monolithic chunk that can\'t easily be split into smalle

Answer 1

I am not a git-guru, but I guess this could be solved with submodules. Add the precompiled binaries as submodules, to get them then one simply has to do this:

git submodule update --init

How to ignore changes in submodules is described here. So, if the dev rebuilts something it will NOT be committed with git commit -a and not added with git add .. They just have to make sure they do not commit something from within the submodule directly. This Vimcast shows how to use submodules for keeping your vimfiles under controll, but this should be easy to adapt for your problem.