These makefiles are recipes for several common tasks in different types of projects. To add them to your project, simply do:

git remote add makefiles ssh://git@lab.cluster.gsi.dit.upm.es:2200/docs/templates/makefiles.git
git subtree add --prefix=.makefiles/ makefiles master
touch Makefile
echo "include .makefiles/makefiles.mk" >> Makefile

Now you can take advantage of the recipes. For instance, to add useful targets for a python project, just add this to your Makefile:

include .makefiles/python.mk

You may need to set special variables like the name of your project or the python versions you're targetting. Take a look at each specific .mk file for more information, and the Makefile in the senpy project for a real use case.

If you update the makefiles from your repository, make sure to push the changes for review in upstream (this repository):

make makefiles-push

It will automatically commit all unstaged changes in the .makefiles folder.