On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Robert Haas <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > On Feb 22, 2015, at 5:41 AM, Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > This is up to the maintainer of each extension to manage their code
> > tree. However I can imagine that some people would be grateful if we
> > allow them to not need sql/ and expected/ containing only one single
> > .gitignore file ignoring everything with "*", making the code tree of
> > their extensions cleaner.
>
> I don't see this as an improvement. What's wrong with a .gitignore file
> ignoring everything?
>

That's mainly a matter of code maintenance style (and I am on the side that
a minimum number of folders in a git tree makes things easier to follow),
and IMO it is strange to not have some flexibility. Btw, the reason why
this patch exists is this thread of last December:
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/[email protected]#[email protected]
-- 
Michael

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