On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 11:44, Stefan Traby <ste...@hello-penguin.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 07:29:13PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote: > > On 2019/2/27 下午7:22, Mike Fleetwood wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 05:16, Qu Wenruo <w...@suse.com> wrote: > > >> > > >> A lot of editor/IDE related config files are hidden files, like .vimrc > > >> or .clang_complete. > > >> > > >> Instead of adding gitignore entry for each editor/IDE, just ignore all > > >> hidden files like what kernel does. > > > I think you mean: > > > files starting with ".", like ls does by default without the -a flag. > > > > When I punched the words "linux hidden file" into google, I got quite a > > lot of pages showing 'In the Linux operating system, a hidden file is > > any file that begins with a "."' > > > > So I think the words "hidden files" should be more or less OK?
My main point was that you said "hidden files like what kernel does" which is not true. > > I think the word "dotfiles" is ok. Shortening to "just ignore all dotfiles" would be a good choice.
