Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com> writes:
>> Could you give an example of when this can be useful?
> And now I can answer my own question. I can move all shell scripts I
> typically use for the development from the repository and be sure they
> are not going to be deleted by accident (by `git clean`, for
> instance).
FWIW, I gather that the upcoming switch to the meson build system
will result in *requiring* use of outside-the-source-tree builds.
regards, tom lane