Re: Add .gitignore files to CVS?

On Thursday 07 January 2010 23:32:27 Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On tor, 2010-01-07 at 22:16 +0000, Tim Bunce wrote:
> > I've a .git/info/exclude file I pulled from a link on the dev wiki.
> >
> > Some of the changes I'm making create new files that ought to be added
> > to the excluded files. I can easily add them to my .git/info/exclude
> > file but it's much more work for me and others to spread those changes.
> >
> > Is there any reason not to add .gitignore files into the repository?
> > They'll make no difference to those who don't use git, but be very
> > helpful to, and maintained by, those who do.
> 
> I already find the .cvsignore files to be useless and an annoyance to
> keep up to date (well, I basically ignore them and someone else cleans
> up after me), but if you are thinking about
> <http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/GitExclude>, which looks like an
> outdated list of every single file that is built, then I think that is
> going completely overboard.  Why don't you just ignore every single file
> by default and override it on a case-by-case basis?  That would at least
> give reliable results.
Because that way you forget new files in patches way much easier.

Andres