Re: Ignore Visual Studio's Temp Files While Working with PG on Windows

On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 2:16 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> =?UTF-8?B?Sm9zZWYgxaBpbcOhbmVr?= <josef.simanek@gmail.com> writes:
> > But this is different. If I understand it well, just by following
> > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/install-windows-full.html you'll
> > get those files no matter what is your specific environment (or
> > specific set of tools).
>
> Hm?  Visual Studio seems like quite a specific tool from here.
>
> I did some googling around the question of project .gitignore
> files ignoring .vs/, and was amused to come across this:
>
> https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/VisualStudio.gitignore
>
>
This is funny Tom. Adding an entry for each type of temp file in .gitignore
is a childish thing, obviously.

which seems like a mighty fine example of where we *don't*
> want to go.
>

I agree we don't want to go in this direction.


>
>                         regards, tom lane
>