Re: .gitignore files, take two

Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I suppose you already know my votes, but here they are again just in case.
> ...
> Centralize.
> ...
> All the build products in a normal build.

I don't understand your preference for this together with a centralized
ignore file. That will be completely unmaintainable IMNSHO. A
centralized file would work all right if it's limited to the couple
dozen files that are currently listed in .cvsignore's, but I can't see
doing it that way if it has to list every executable and .so built
anywhere in the tree. You'd get merge conflicts from
completely-unrelated patches, not to mention the fundamental
action-at-a-distance nastiness of a top-level file that knows about
everything going on in every part of the tree.

To put it another way: would you expect anyone to take it seriously
if you proposed moving all the "make clean" rules into the top-level
Makefile? That's pretty much exactly what this would be.

regards, tom lane