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

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, March 21, 2015 22:56:58 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 3/21/15 8:54 PM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> > "Andrei Alexandrescu"  wrote in message
> > news:mel52r$252b$1 at digitalmars.com...
> >
> >> 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?
> >
> > We add it to the .gitignore, then forget about it forever.  Having a
> > long gitignore doesn't cost us anything.
>
> ... but complicated/wrong clean rules in makefiles and clutter in ls. We
> should clean our shit. -- Andrei

Agreed.

- Jonathan M Davis