Re: do we want to gitignore regression-test-failure files?

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> I don't find it indecipherable.  We're ignoring stuff that can be
> expected to be present after a normal build and successful "make
> check" or "make installcheck".  As soon as we ignore more than that,
> I'm going to insist on ignoring *~ ... do you want to open that can
> of worms?

Couldn't resist to note that $EDITOR might make it easy to divert the
backup files elsewhere (out-of-tree). For example:

  (setq backup-directory-alist '((".*" . "~/.emacs.d/backups/")))

Regards,
-- 
dim