Re: Third party .gitignore .hgignore

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:56:27PM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> I've encouraged (new to me) problems with packaging the NetBSD sources with git.
> We store in the CVS repos the following files:
> 
> src/external/bsd/llvm/dist/clang/.gitignore
> src/external/bsd/llvm/dist/llvm/.gitignore
> src/external/bsd/ppp/dist/.gitignore
> src/external/bsd/ppp/dist/chat/.gitignore
> src/external/bsd/ppp/dist/pppd/.gitignore
> src/external/bsd/wpa/dist/src/crypto/.gitignore
> src/external/bsd/wpa/dist/src/drivers/.gitignore
> src/external/bsd/wpa/dist/src/radius/.gitignore
> src/external/bsd/wpa/dist/src/tls/.gitignore
> src/external/bsd/wpa/dist/src/utils/.gitignore
> src/external/bsd/wpa/dist/wpa_supplicant/.gitignore
> src/external/bsd/wpa/dist/wpa_supplicant/dbus/.gitignore
> src/external/bsd/wpa/dist/wpa_supplicant/doc/docbook/.gitignore
> src/external/bsd/wpa/dist/wpa_supplicant/wpa_gui-qt4/.gitignore
> src/external/bsd/wpa/dist/wpa_supplicant/wpa_gui-qt4/lang/.gitignore
> src/external/gpl3/binutils/dist/bfd/.gitignore
> src/external/gpl3/binutils/dist/binutils/.gitignore
> src/external/gpl3/binutils/dist/gas/.gitignore
> src/external/gpl3/binutils/dist/gprof/.gitignore
> src/external/gpl3/binutils/dist/ld/.gitignore
> src/external/gpl3/binutils/dist/libiberty/.gitignore
> src/external/gpl3/binutils/dist/opcodes/.gitignore
> src/external/gpl3/gdb/dist/sim/testsuite/.gitignore
> src/external/gpl3/gdb/dist/sim/testsuite/sim/bfin/.gitignore
> 
...
> 
> Could we set a policy to prevent all .gitignore and .hgignore
> files from being stored in the sources? This will make the life easier.

If there are no negative comments, I'll remove those files from CVS in
a week.
 Thomas