Re: Add .gitignore files to CVS?

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>> On tor, 2010-01-07 at 22:16 +0000, Tim Bunce wrote:
>>> Is there any reason not to add .gitignore files into the repository?
>
>> I already find the .cvsignore files to be useless and an annoyance to
>> keep up to date (well, I basically ignore them and someone else cleans
>> up after me),
>
> When/if we move off CVS, we should drop the .cvsignore files and insert
> .gitignore (assuming that works the same way).  I am not in favor of
> expecting the core project to maintain support for non-core SCMs though.
> Will we have .bzrignore and who knows what else in there too?
>
> As Peter points out, the only way the things will get maintained is if
> the complaints they suppress are in-the-face of somebody with commit
> access to the core repo.  I like quiet from my "cvs update"s, so I'm
> willing to maintain .cvsignores, but I'm not willing to maintain
> multiple copies of that information.

I would be willing to maintain .gitignore files, under the agreement
that if I should fail or cease to do so, and no one else wants to take
over, then they all get removed. Would that be acceptable?

...Robert