GeneMap assets and GitHub

[marco-brandizi]

Files in GeneMap keep being changed by Maven builds, yet they are managed by git/github and this isn't good.

Are those files auto-generated? Then, they shouldn't be versioned, nor downloaded from github, they should generated when needed. Actually, they shouldn't be in that location either, for the convention is to have Maven-generated files in target/ (ref).

If they are expected to be generated manually, from time to time, this isn't what's happening and hence changes to POM(s) are required.

[marco-brandizi]

It seems to depend on .gitattributes, setting all files to LF newline style is too much and causes all those fake differences. See here for details.

@AjitPS, @josephhearnshaw, @KeywanHP, @ssamberkar if you don't have problems with the new version of this file, I can close this issue.

[AjitPS]

everything in genemap/dist/ is built by npm/gulp (like KnetMaps/dist/) but the dist/ contents and dependencies like genemap/.node_modules, etc. are all already in their own .npmignore (https://github.com/Rothamsted/knetminer/blob/master/common/client-base/src/main/webapp/html/GeneMap/.npmignore), and should be in root knetminer .gitignore too (and I think they are)

[AjitPS]

if .gitattributes fixes it, then happy to have it, as long as we retain everything apart from that (i.e., what's needed by npm/gulp to build/optimize/minify genemap/ and knetmaps/) in .gitignore and .npmignore

[marco-brandizi]

OK, I'll align the two ignore files.