Re: Add .gitignore files to CVS?

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>>>> On fre, 2010-01-08 at 12:04 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>>>> Do .gitignore files have the same format as .cvsignore?
>>>> The format is the same, but while cvsignore files currently list a few
>>>> dozen files, the proposed gitignore would list all files that are ever
>>>> build anywhere.
>>>
>>> The charter of the .cvsignore files is to ignore files that are not in
>>> the repository but are nonetheless left behind after "make distclean".
>>> Any git-oriented replacement should behave the same IMO.
>>>
>>
>> Oh.  Never mind.  That doesn't seem useful enough to be worth spending
>> time on.  What I want is to ignore all of the build products, so that
>> when I do 'git status' in my working tree, I only see the the files
>> I've actually added/changed.  Now that you mention it, I think I had
>> the same complaint about the .cvsignore files back when I was using
>> CVS.  It seems like an odd charter.
>>
> Use a vpath build, and you'll keep those artifacts out of your source tree.

I suppose that's one answer, but of what use is it to ignore only the
'make distclean' leftovers?

...Robert