On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 12:18:01PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote: > As postgres isn't mandating a specific IDE or dev environment, we typically > don't add these files to the .gitignore we ship. If we did it would be an > enormous list we'd have to curate and maintain. Instead, everyone hacking on > postgres can add these to their local gitignore with the core.excludesfile Git > config.
Yeah. This is an issue for many things. For example, under emacs or vim, we'd still track backup files for unsaved changes. > Now, it is true that there are some MSVC specific files in the .gitignore > already, but past discussion on this have leaned towards removing those (which > I personally support) rather than adding new ones. Agreed. I don't think that we should remove the entries that track files we could expect based on the state of the build code, though, like config.pl or buildenv.pl in src/tools/msvc/ as committing those could silently break builds. -- Michael
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