I have a big project written in Delphi and I want to manage its sources using Git. I created Git repository, which includes my application's sources and 3rd party components. All that stuff is automatically building using msbuild.
The biggest problem is RES files. Some of them are updated every time I rebuild my application, some are not. Some have *.rc sources, some don't. I can't ignore all res files (.gitignore) because without resources my project will fail to build. Also, I can't include res files - they change from build to build, I don't want to see them in diffs.
What do you do with your *.res files under Git? Any advices?
I keep my project RES files in git (those that match the name of the dpr).
I believe the only reason the project RES file would change every time you build is if you have increment build number set, which to me either means you need to keep the res in source control or you don't care about the build number so you should turn off that option.
I do also have RES files that I build from RC, which change every compile, so I have a gitignore for *.res and I then add git add -f project.res for the project RES files