On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 10:07:08AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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 *~.
Here are extra entries I use for example:
# Files created by vim for unsaved changes
.*.swp
# Files created by emacs for unsaved changes
.#*
# Temporary files created during compilation
*.o-*
# Tags generated by etags or ctags
TAGS
tags
# Files created by ./configure
conftest.c
conftest.err
confdefs.h
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Michael