Re: Add .gitignore files to CVS?

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.
        regards, tom lane