Re: Third party .gitignore .hgignore

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 08:23:48PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 08:18:48PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > I would go one step further and just say leave them all alone. Some of
> > them don't even make sense, so any resolution should happen with the
> > corresponding upstream...
> 
> Can you explain why we need to have these files in the CVS repository?
> 
> We remove many other random files from upstream distributions as well
> if we think we don't need them.

You are asking the wrong question. Why should we remove them? Given that
they come from upstream, they supposedly serve a purpose? I don't know
when git uses .gitignore, but CVS certainly allows committing a file
which is on the ignore list by overriding it appropiately.

Joerg