Re: .gitignore files, take two

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 19:46, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 17:27, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> Why does this entry have a / when none of the rest do?  Shouldn't
>>> we be consistent about that?
>
>> We should. I've removed it.
>
>> The difference is that "zic" matches zic in any subdirectory and
>> "/zic" matches just in the top dir. But we're not having any other
>> thing called zic further down - it's really only a potential problem
>> at the top level.
>
> Hmm.  In leaf subdirectories it doesn't matter of course, but I'm
> worried about .gitignore files in non-leaf subdirectories accidentally
> excluding files further down the tree.  Wouldn't it be better to
> standardize on always using the slash, rather than not using it?

Yeah, good point. I just took the path of least resistance :-) I'll
update with that before commit.

Have we decided to do this? If so, I'll start backpatching it...

>> Btw, what's the "stamp-h" file? Should that be excluded globally?
>
> I'd say no, there's only one or two instances.

Ok. Since I don't know what it is, I didn't know if it's likely to pop
up anywhere else under different circumstances.

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