On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 07:29:13PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote: > On 2019/2/27 下午7:22, Mike Fleetwood wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 05:16, Qu Wenruo <w...@suse.com> wrote: > >> > >> A lot of editor/IDE related config files are hidden files, like .vimrc > >> or .clang_complete. > >> > >> Instead of adding gitignore entry for each editor/IDE, just ignore all > >> hidden files like what kernel does. > > I think you mean: > > files starting with ".", like ls does by default without the -a flag. > > When I punched the words "linux hidden file" into google, I got quite a > lot of pages showing 'In the Linux operating system, a hidden file is > any file that begins with a "."' > > So I think the words "hidden files" should be more or less OK?
I think the word "dotfiles" is ok. -- ciao - Stefan