From the cycle "Topic of the day" - .gitignore: how big is too big?

[Jakob Ovrum via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 22 March 2015 at 01:15:07 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> I've left a comment recently at 
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/3087.
>
> So what's the deal with that? Whenever a new tool leaves some 
> trash, do we chalk a circle on the pavement around it?
>
>
> Andrei

Aye, our tools should be configured to put temporary files and 
output files in uniform directories that can be .gitignore'd 
wholesale. The problem is not in .gitignore but our makefiles.