Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> writes: > On 08/21/2013 01:57 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >>>> I think we could consolidate everything in tests/.gitignore. But can we >>>> do it as an incremental patch? It's a very small cosmetic thing to respin >>>> the series and my pull request. >>> >>> Sure, it's not a bug. >> >> Is it OK if I submit a patch moving the test-* entries over to >> tests/.gitignore once Anthony applies this? (I'm offering because it's >> not clear to me who's planning to do it.) > > Bikeshedding alert - I personally like having a single top-level > .gitignore for everything. We don't live in CVS days where you had to > have per-directory ignores, and having one file is easier to maintain > (in the future, it's easier to know WHICH .gitignore to add a new entry > to if there is only ONE .gitignore). I don't care enough to write the > patch myself, nor to care if you end up keeping the split .gitignore, > but if I did care, I'd be consolidating in the opposite direction (move > tests/.gitignore to the toplevel).
One more thing you probably care about (I do): everything that is ignored in a directory should be ignored in the same .gitignore. Trivial if the is only one.
