On 1 January 2014 06:07, Joe Gordon <joe.gord...@gmail.com> wrote: > >
> > I am not sure if this is the global .gitignore you are thinking of but this > is the one I am in favor of: > > https://help.github.com/articles/ignoring-files#global-gitignore > > > Maintaining .gitignore in 30+ repositories for a potentially infinite number > of editors is very hard, and thankfully we have an easier way to do it. This is a strawman argument: noone (that I know of) has proposed adding all editors to all repositories. There are in reality a few very common editors and having their extensions present in per repository .gitignores does absolutely *no harm*. There is no reason not to have sane and sensible defaults in our repositories. If we are wasting time adding and removing patterns, then I think that counts as a harm, so it is a sensible discussion to have to come to a project standard, but the standard should be inclusive and useful, not just useful for power users that have everything setup 'just so'. Many contributors are using git for the first time when they contribute to OpenStack, and getting git setup correctly is itself daunting [for new users]. So I'm very much +1 on having tolerance for the top 5-10 editor patterns in our .gitignores, -1 on *ever* having a bug open to change this in any repository, and getting on with our actual task here of writing fantastic code. If folk *really* don't want editor files in .gitignore (and given the complete lack of harm I would -really- like a explanation for this mindset) then we could solve the problem more permanently: we know what files need to be added - *.rst, *.py, *.ini, [!.]* and a few others. Everything else is junk and shouldn't be added. By whitelisting patterns we will support all editors except those whose working file names match names we'd genuinely want to add. -Rob -- Robert Collins <rbtcoll...@hp.com> Distinguished Technologist HP Converged Cloud _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
