Re: Add .gitignore files to CVS?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tim Bunce <Tim(dot)Bunce(at)pobox(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Add .gitignore files to CVS?
Date: 2010-01-09 17:11:45
Message-ID: 1263057105.1339.12.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On lör, 2010-01-09 at 12:00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)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.

Then it would be trivial, but that is not what is being proposed.

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