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

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On Sunday, 22 March 2015 at 19:32:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> 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

while we're at it, let's add D to this list: 
https://github.com/github/gitignore