Re: Add .gitignore files to CVS?

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Alex Hunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>, Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2010-01-09T17:00:21Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On fre, 2010-01-08 at 12:04 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> Do .gitignore files have the same format as .cvsignore?

> The format is the same, but while cvsignore files currently list a few
> dozen files, the proposed gitignore would list all files that are ever
> build anywhere.

The charter of the .cvsignore files is to ignore files that are not in
the repository but are nonetheless left behind after "make distclean".
Any git-oriented replacement should behave the same IMO.

			regards, tom lane