Re: Add .gitignore files to CVS?

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
>> On fre, 2010-01-08 at 12:04 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> Do .gitignore files have the same format as .cvsignore?
>
>> The format is the same, but while cvsignore files currently list a few
>> dozen files, the proposed gitignore would list all files that are ever
>> build anywhere.
>
> The charter of the .cvsignore files is to ignore files that are not in
> the repository but are nonetheless left behind after "make distclean".
> Any git-oriented replacement should behave the same IMO.

Oh.  Never mind.  That doesn't seem useful enough to be worth spending
time on.  What I want is to ignore all of the build products, so that
when I do 'git status' in my working tree, I only see the the files
I've actually added/changed.  Now that you mention it, I think I had
the same complaint about the .cvsignore files back when I was using
CVS.  It seems like an odd charter.

...Robert