Re: .gitignore files, take two

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 20:21, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
>> On tis, 2010-09-21 at 11:27 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> rather than global ignore patterns for *.a and *.so.[0-9]
>> 
>> Probably rather *.so.[0-9.]+

> Any particular reason not to just do .so.*?

Just paranoia, I guess.  I can't actually see a reason why we'd have
any committable files in the tree matching that pattern.  OTOH, we
probably also need the same type of pattern for .sl and .dylib,
so at some point a more conservative pattern would be wise.
        regards, tom lane