On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Victor Wagner <vi...@wagner.pp.ru> wrote: >> I've noticed that source distribution archive of the postgresql contain >> more than hundred of .gitignore files and one .gitattributes. >> >> Is it just a bug nobody bothered to fix, or these files can make >> any sense outside git repository? > > They are harmless and do not consume that much space in a tarball, contrary > to .git/ which has the whole history of the repository. And this behavior > matches for example git-archive. Keeping them also has the advantage to > allow people to deploy a tarball easily in an orphan branch of a fresh git > repository. In a couple of companies where people can just work from > tarballs (this exists and I know some), that's actually useful to keep them.
+1. I see 113 files totaling 8266 bytes. That's not much, and like you say, they might be useful to somebody. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
