Re: What are those .gitignore files doing in the CVS?

[Miles Bader]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
>> So, as long as the mirror is only one-way I don't see a need for those
>> files to appear in the CVS.
>
> I certainly don't want to spend the time setting up a complicated
> infrastructure for 4 very small files; if somebody else does it, great,
> whatever.
>
> But until somebody _does_ do it, there's obviously a reason for those
> files to be in CVS.  They are useful, and do not have a negative impact.

BTW, I think it's also a bad idea in _general_ to separate out such
files in context-specific subdistributions.  We do not have a separate
"windows" source tree, and we should not a have a separate "git" source
tree, nor a separate "bzr" tree.

-Miles

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