On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 20:34, Thomas Koenig <tkoe...@netcologne.de> wrote: > > Am 18.06.20 um 20:34 schrieb Jonathan Wakely via Gcc: > > On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 19:22, Thomas Koenig via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I just found a few unversioned files called .intrinsic.c.swp and > >> similar in my "git status" output. > >> > >> Could somebody please put .*.swp into .gitignore? I'm sure this > >> would save at least 10 reverts :-) > > > > You can just add it to .git/info/exclude in your own clone. > > The same argument goes for the emacs files, do you suggest we > remove them from .gitignore? :-) > > Seriously, while a personal solution will work for me personally, > I don't suppose that I am the only person ever to visit a file > in the Gcc source tree with vim.
You could propose a patch for .gitignore on the gcc-patches list, like any other change to the source tree.