On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Christopher Browne <cbbro...@gmail.com>wrote:
> There hasn't been general agreement on the merits of particular .gitignore > rules of this sort. > > You could hide your own favorite patterns by putting this into your > ~/.gitignore that isn't part of the repo, configuring this globally, thus: > git config --global core.excludesfile '~/.gitignore' > > Yes... I know that... > That has the consequence that you can hide whatever things your own tools > like to create, and not worry about others' preferences. > > Us Emacs users can put things like *~, #*#, and such into our own "ignore" > configuration; that doesn't need to bother you, and vice-versa for your > vim-oriented patterns. > I agree with you about vim-oriented patterns, because its a particular tool, but "ctags" and "etags" be part of postgres source tree and its generate some output inside them, so I think we must ignore it. IMHO all output generated by tools inside the source tree that will not be committed must be added to .gitignore Regards, -- Fabrízio de Royes Mello Consultoria/Coaching PostgreSQL >> Blog sobre TI: http://fabriziomello.blogspot.com >> Perfil Linkedin: http://br.linkedin.com/in/fabriziomello >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/fabriziomello
