Re: .gitignore for some of cygwin files

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> I agree with that, though the *dll.def files are ours and probably
> deserve a global .gitignore entry.

Agreed, and that's done.

> As for executables, I think the local .gitignore files in each subdir
> should be tweaked so that they catch the .exe extension, so
> src/backend/.gitignore which currently includes /postgres should also
> have /postgres.exe, and so on.

I agree with the committed patch, which just added one global *.exe
pattern.  I don't see the value of having to maintain a second
.gitignore entry in every subdirectory that builds an executable.
        regards, tom lane