On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 07:43:24 -0700 Brian Dolbec <dol...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > No, there clearly should be some things that are commonly present > that should never be committed. Those common things should be in a > global .gitignore. I did not read the entire thread(s) but it seemed > there was more bikeshedding that was necessary. I had not seen > mention of an alternate git ignore setting that could be used without > the need to have a locally modified .gitignore that someone must > constantly refrain from committing with git constantly reminding them > it has been modified and lest they be chastised for committing it ;) >
We should have common editor artifacts and backup files in there, I generally use this in just about every repository I touch: *~ .*.sw[po] .*.un~ *# .#* This should cover vim and emacs, if there other editors that like to drop files around, we should consider adding those as well.0
