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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 9, 2016, 21:21 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqh9d2girw.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1465506629-16577-1-git-send-email-Lars.Vogel@vogella.com>

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 personally do not care too deeply either way; I could even support a move to add some selected small file extensions, as long as we some (social) mechanism to avoid churning this file every time somebody new comes and complains their favourite editor or other tools are not supported.

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>  .gitignore | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
> index 05cb58a..13c7403 100644
> --- a/.gitignore
> +++ b/.gitignore
> @@ -219,3 +219,4 @@
>  *.pdb
>  /Debug/
>  /Release/
> +*~