Re: .gitignore files, take two

I'm reading this a bit late, but...

We (Xorg) found that ignoring:

   *~
   *.bak
   *.patch

in addition to the files generated by building is very helpful.

We do use git tag and git describe in the make dist process, as
well as git log >ChangeLog.  That may be relevant; avoiding git
describe's dirty designation is important when using it in that
fashion.  But it helps to be able to run git add --all cleanly.

I understand that other git users have similar experience.

-JimC
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