Hi, OK I believe the issue was than between making a build and zipping it up for a release it's possible that something else can change those files (ide scripts for instance). If the files are in git ignore you have no way of knowing that they have been changed and then release something that is not correct.
May or may not be an issue for the source release (as they would be regenerated if ant was run but the files don't represent what would be generated but may match what has been tagged) but it would certainly be an issue for the binary release (which the installer uses). If you make a mistake with the template files and didn't notice it and it produces a bad config file you could also create a RC thinking it was OK. This has bitten up once before and caused an entire release candidate to be scrapped - that's a lot of wasted effort and time. Please don't add them to git ignore. Thanks, Justin
