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

[Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d]

"Andrei Alexandrescu"  wrote in message 
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> 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.