Re: Using make_ctags leaves tags files in git

Steve Chavez <steve(at)supabase(dot)io> writes:
> In this case I just propose adding 'tags'. I believe it's reasonable to
> ignore these as they're produced by make_ctags.

Our policy on this is that the project's .gitignore files should ignore
files that are produced by our standard build scripts. Anything else
you should put in your personal ignore patterns (one way is to set
the core.excludesFile property in ~/.gitconfig). Otherwise it's very
very hard to argue which tools are privileged to get a project-wide
ignore entry. Personally, for example, I use emacs but not ctags,
so I'd put "*~" way ahead of "tags". But it's my responsibility to
ignore "*~", and I do.

regards, tom lane