On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 19:46, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes: >> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 17:27, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>> Why does this entry have a / when none of the rest do? Shouldn't >>> we be consistent about that? > >> We should. I've removed it. > >> The difference is that "zic" matches zic in any subdirectory and >> "/zic" matches just in the top dir. But we're not having any other >> thing called zic further down - it's really only a potential problem >> at the top level. > > Hmm. In leaf subdirectories it doesn't matter of course, but I'm > worried about .gitignore files in non-leaf subdirectories accidentally > excluding files further down the tree. Wouldn't it be better to > standardize on always using the slash, rather than not using it?
Yeah, good point. I just took the path of least resistance :-) I'll update with that before commit. Have we decided to do this? If so, I'll start backpatching it... >> Btw, what's the "stamp-h" file? Should that be excluded globally? > > I'd say no, there's only one or two instances. Ok. Since I don't know what it is, I didn't know if it's likely to pop up anywhere else under different circumstances. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
