Hi Mike,

I appreciate the feedback. Below is an updated patch. Let me know if there are any other suggested edits.

Cheers,
Mark

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This patch introduces a .gitignore file to force git to skip known build artifacts when displaying status information.

Signed-off-by: Mark Spielman <mark.spielman@...>

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iff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d018ef3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+# Compiled source #
+###################
+*.com
+*.class
+*.dll
+*.exe
+*.o
+*.so
+*.lo
+*.la
+
+# Temporary Directories #
+#########################
+.dep*
+.lib*
+
+# GNU Automake #
+################
+Makefile
+Makefile.in
+
+# Packages #
+############
+# it's better to unpack these files and commit the raw source
+# git has its own built in compression methods
+*.7z
+*.dmg
+*.gz
+*.iso
+*.jar
+*.rar
+*.tar
+*.zip
+
+# Logs and databases #
+######################
+*.log
+*.sql
+*.sqlite
+
+# OS generated files #
+######################
+.DS_Store*
+ehthumbs.db
+Icon?
+Thumbs.db
+*~
+*.swp
+
+# OpenMAMA Specific #
+# ###################
+common/c_cpp/aclocal.m4
+common/c_cpp/autom4te.cache/
+common/c_cpp/config.h
+common/c_cpp/config.h.in
+common/c_cpp/config.status
+common/c_cpp/configure
+common/c_cpp/etc/
+common/c_cpp/libtool
+common/c_cpp/src/c/properties.c
+common/c_cpp/src/c/version.h
+common/c_cpp/stamp-h1
+mama/c_cpp/aclocal.m4
+mama/c_cpp/autom4te.cache/
+mama/c_cpp/config.h
+mama/c_cpp/config.h.in
+mama/c_cpp/config.status
+mama/c_cpp/configure
+mama/c_cpp/doc/c/
+mama/c_cpp/doxyconfig-c
+mama/c_cpp/etc/
+mama/c_cpp/libtool
+mama/c_cpp/src/c/bridge/solace/Makefile.am
+mama/c_cpp/src/c/mama/version.h
+mama/c_cpp/src/c/version.c
+mama/c_cpp/stamp-h1