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

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 3/22/15 12:27 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 March 2015 at 16:08:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 3/22/15 3:17 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>>> I thought moving things around was also one of your pet peeves :)
>>
>> Yah but I'm seeing pull requests "yeah there's some more junk out
>> there, let's just add it to .gitignore". It seems to me like the wrong
>> way to address the matter at hand.
>
> It is much easier to add a few lines to .gitignore than to fix the
> Makefile, then fix Digger, then fix my build scripts, then explain why
> the change was necessary to anyone who then complains that this broke
> their build. It is not a matter of which fix is better, but a matter of
> which is within my threshold of the effort I am ready to exert at the
> moment. If someone with a higher threshold and who is also bothered by
> the .gitignore mess comes along, all the better for everyone if they
> decide to fix the problem in a better way.

Fair enough. I'll drop this. -- Andrei