[Python-Dev] r85838 - python/branches/py3k/.gitignore

[Ned Deily]

In article <20101026085124.4c68459c at mission>,
 Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Oct 26, 2010, at 09:19 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: 
> >On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> >> This looks more like "Add gitignore".  Do we really want to check in
> >> ignore files for every possible DVCS?
> >
> >No, but supporting the current big four open source ones (svn, hg,
> >bzr, git) seems reasonable enough.
> 
> +1.  A couple of extra dot files never hurt anyone. :)

Actually they have.  I got burned a while back by the checked-in 
.hgignore file when creating my own hg repo (to use mq patch management) 
on top of a svn checkout.  Now that I know they are there, I ensure they 
get deleted.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org