[Python-Dev] r85838 - python/branches/py3k/.gitignore (original) (raw)

Ned Deily nad at acm.org
Tue Oct 26 19:42:27 CEST 2010

In article <20101026085124.4c68459c at mission>, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

On Oct 26, 2010, at 09:19 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote: >> This looks more like "Add gitignore".  Do we really want to check in >> ignore files for every possible DVCS? > >No, but supporting the current big four open source ones (svn, hg, >bzr, git) seems reasonable enough.

+1. A couple of extra dot files never hurt anyone. :)

Actually they have. I got burned a while back by the checked-in .hgignore file when creating my own hg repo (to use mq patch management) on top of a svn checkout. Now that I know they are there, I ensure they get deleted.

-- Ned Deily, nad at acm.org

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