I recently reorganized my dotfiles to live inside a Git repository at ~/Dropbox/dotfiles and I'm using pathogen to bundle all Vim addons inside ~/Dropbox/dotfiles/home/.vim/bundle. These addons were added as Git submodules.
Now the problem is, when I run Vim, it automatically generates the documentation for all addons and puts them inside each submodule directory. This adds untracked content to the submodules, which I'd like to avoid.
ruby-1.8.7-p330@gs ~/Dropbox/dotfiles ‹master*› $ git st
# On branch master
# Changed but not updated:
# (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
# (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
# (commit or discard the untracked or modified content in submodules)
#
# modified: home/.vim/bundle/fuzzyfinder (untracked content)
# modified: home/.vim/bundle/l9 (untracked content)
# modified: home/.vim/bundle/matchit (untracked content)
# modified: home/.vim/bundle/ruby (untracked content)
# ...
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
I tried to add a .gitignore file to the root of my Git repository to ignore all doc folders inside submodules, but this doesn't seem to work:
home/.vim/bundle/**/doc
My question: is there a way to ignore files and folders inside Git submodules or maybe configure Vim to create the documentation in a folder outside the Git repository?
EDIT: as Randy Morris pointed out, this might be a duplicate of Generating tags to different location by pathogen