Re: [PATCH v2 20/23] .gitignore: touch up the entries regarding Visual Studio

> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 01:08:14PM -0700, Philip Oakley via GitGitGadget wrote:
>> Add the Microsoft .manifest pattern, and do not anchor the 'Debug'
>> and 'Release' entries at the top-level directory, to allow for
>> multiple projects (one per target).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
>> ---
>>   .gitignore | 5 +++--
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
>> index e096e0a51c..e7bb15d301 100644
>> --- a/.gitignore
>> +++ b/.gitignore
>> @@ -230,6 +230,7 @@
>>   *.ipdb
>>   *.dll
>>   .vs/
>> -/Debug/
>> -/Release/
>> +*.manifest
> This new line ignores the tracked file 'compat/win32/git.manifest'
> that was added fairly recently in fe90397604 (mingw: embed a manifest
> to trick UAC into Doing The Right Thing, 2019-06-27).
>
> I wonder whether that's intentional or accidental.
>
> I'm inclined to think that it's merely accidental, because, as far as
> I understand, this is an old-ish patch from times when there wasn't
> any 'git.manifest' file in tree, and simply noone noticed that in the
> meantime we got one.  But I have no idea about how a Git build with
> Visual Studio is supposed to work, so it doesn't really matter what
> I'm inclined to think :)
>