From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2016 21:38:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Adds *~ to the .gitignore
Message-ID: <20160609213809.GA23059@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqh9d2girw.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 02:21:55PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 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