Got it, and that makes sense.
I hereby withdraw this patch. ;)
- David
> On Dec 3, 2019, at 10:08, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> writes:
>>>> On 3 Dec 2019, at 15:47, David Nedrow <dnedrow@me.com> wrote:
>>> This patch simply adds “.idea/“ to the list of global excludes across all subdirectories. This directory is created
whena JetBrains IDE is used to open a project. In my specific case, Clion is creating the project directory.
>>>
>>> The ONLY change in the patch is the “.idea/“ addition to .gitignore.
>
>> -1. This seems like something better suited in a local gitignore for those who
>> use Jetbrains products. See the documentation for ~/.gitignore_global.
>
> Yeah, we already have a policy that we won't add entries for, say,
> editor backup files. This seems like the same thing. It's stuff
> generated by a tool you use, and you'd need it for any project
> you work on, so a personal ~/.gitexclude seems like the answer.
>
> (Roughly speaking, I think the project policy is/should be that only
> junk files created by application of build rules in our Makefiles
> should be excluded by our own .gitexclude files.)
>
> As a point of reference, I have
>
> $ cat ~/.gitexclude
> *~
> *.orig
>
> to suppress emacs backup files and patch backup files respectively.
> Somebody who prefers another editor would have no use for *~.
>
> regards, tom lane