People have asked about this before. Some people don't want .gitignore files because they like to see everything that's in their directories, including generated files so they have a better idea of when something was supposed to get generated but didn't, etc.
In the past people have simply added their own .gitignore (adding '.gitignore' to it as well so it ignores itself). Someone once proposed committing a .gitignore-template (or something similarly named) that a developer can copy to .gitignore if they choose to (but this doesn't force people that don't want .gitignore to use it). On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Dave Lester <d...@ischool.berkeley.edu>wrote: > This makes sense to me. > > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Charlie Carson <ccar...@twitter.com> > wrote: > > > Hey guys, is it good / bad / different if we were to add the files that > > automake generates and to put them into appropriate .gitignore files and > > check those in? > > > > I'm new to mesos dev, so probably missing context, but wanted to double > > check instead of just working around it for myself. > > > > if it does make sense then I'd be happy to create the JIRA and initial > CR. > > > > thanks, > > cc > > >
