On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes: >> On tor, 2010-01-07 at 22:16 +0000, Tim Bunce wrote: >>> Is there any reason not to add .gitignore files into the repository? > >> I already find the .cvsignore files to be useless and an annoyance to >> keep up to date (well, I basically ignore them and someone else cleans >> up after me), > > When/if we move off CVS, we should drop the .cvsignore files and insert > .gitignore (assuming that works the same way). I am not in favor of > expecting the core project to maintain support for non-core SCMs though. > Will we have .bzrignore and who knows what else in there too? > > As Peter points out, the only way the things will get maintained is if > the complaints they suppress are in-the-face of somebody with commit > access to the core repo. I like quiet from my "cvs update"s, so I'm > willing to maintain .cvsignores, but I'm not willing to maintain > multiple copies of that information.
I would be willing to maintain .gitignore files, under the agreement that if I should fail or cease to do so, and no one else wants to take over, then they all get removed. Would that be acceptable? ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
