On lör, 2010-01-09 at 12:00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > On fre, 2010-01-08 at 12:04 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >> Do .gitignore files have the same format as .cvsignore?
>
> > The format is the same, but while cvsignore files currently list a few
> > dozen files, the proposed gitignore would list all files that are ever
> > build anywhere.
>
> The charter of the .cvsignore files is to ignore files that are not in
> the repository but are nonetheless left behind after "make distclean".
> Any git-oriented replacement should behave the same IMO.
Then it would be trivial, but that is not what is being proposed.