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Re: [PATCH] Adds *~ to the .gitignore

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jun 9, 2016, 21:38 UTC
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<20160609213809.GA23059@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 02:21:55PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > This helps contributors (like me) using editors which automatically create ~ copies of the changed data
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lars Vogel <Lars.Vogel@vogella.com>
> > ---
> 
> We deliberately left this out and kept it out of .gitignore for the
> past 10 years.  The justification was that use of Emacs is merely a
> personal choice that is better served by .git/info/excludes; we do
> not add .swp for vim users, either, for the same reason.

I think a better choice than .git/info/excludes these days is ~/.config/git/ignore. Then it is associated with the user, not the project (which seems a better fit, since it is the user who is picking the editor; this should apply across all projects).

-Peff
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  2. Junio C HamanoJun 9, 2016
  3. Jeff KingJun 9, 2016
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