Re: Overly aggressive .gitignore file?

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 5:42 PM Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> For whatever it's worth, I always run "b4 am -o /tmp/m ...", so all of
> the .mbox files end up in /tmp/m.  Similarly, I'll always run "git ty

FWIW

$ b4 shazam <lore link>

is what I use to fetch and apply patches. Doesn't seem to leave behind
any mbox files.

I don't really understand why *.patch is ok to have in .gitignore but
*.mbox is not?  Wouldn't autocomplete fail due to `git status` for the
exact same reason?

I don't care one way or the other, but why the inconsistency?  Let's
pick one and stick with it?
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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers