Re: [PATCH] Add *.rej to .gitignore

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Tue Feb 17 2009 - 17:14:20 EST


On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 01:16:32PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> >
> > (This effectively reverts 1f5d3a6b6532e25a5cdf1f311956b2b03d343a48)
>
> I really dont' think we should ignore .rej files.
>
> They are _error_ cases, after all. People want to know about them. And if
> you don't want to see them, you should remove them.

Or you can see .gitignore as a list of files that shouldn't _ever_
be committed. This is objective definition instead of some
"we most certainly don't want to ignore them".

I added *.rej because of this, ignored revert, because was sick and
tired of possible arguing, and the inability of reverter to write
rej-ls script.
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