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Re: gitignore: Added files generated by mingw32, eclipse and VC

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 13:37:36 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Guenter wrote:

> agreed for the last one - but why for those others? F.e. we do ignore *.la
> too in the top file, where's the difference? I believe as long as we have no
> files with these extensions in the whole project we should make things
> simple, and maintaining one .gitignore is less hassle, or?

We already have 15 different .gitignore files... and I think the point with
putting them in their own directories is to limit the scope of their effect
and reduce the risk of adding something too broad in a top level file.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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