Daniel Gustafsson <dan...@yesql.se> writes: >> On 3 Dec 2019, at 15:47, David Nedrow <dned...@me.com> wrote: >> This patch simply adds “.idea/“ to the list of global excludes across all >> subdirectories. This directory is created when a JetBrains IDE is used to >> open a project. In my specific case, Clion is creating the project directory. >> >> The ONLY change in the patch is the “.idea/“ addition to .gitignore.
> -1. This seems like something better suited in a local gitignore for those > who > use Jetbrains products. See the documentation for ~/.gitignore_global. Yeah, we already have a policy that we won't add entries for, say, editor backup files. This seems like the same thing. It's stuff generated by a tool you use, and you'd need it for any project you work on, so a personal ~/.gitexclude seems like the answer. (Roughly speaking, I think the project policy is/should be that only junk files created by application of build rules in our Makefiles should be excluded by our own .gitexclude files.) As a point of reference, I have $ cat ~/.gitexclude *~ *.orig to suppress emacs backup files and patch backup files respectively. Somebody who prefers another editor would have no use for *~. regards, tom lane