I've pushed this trivial patch. FYI, in case you didn't know, unlike .cvsignore entries, .gitignore ones hold for all subdirectories as well.
Cheers,
Ralf
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* .igtignore: Ignore tags and TAGS files.
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 556e12c..ef10c31 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -11,3 +11,5 @@ autom4te.cache
.#*
CVS
*~
+tags
+TAGS
