Re: [PATCH] Adds *~ to the .gitignore

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 03:48:12PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

As I said, however, I could support a move to add some selected
small number of common file extensions, as long as we have some
(social) mechanism to avoid churning this file every time somebody
new comes and complains their favourite editor or other tools are
not supported.

Yeah, I don't mind it either, myself, provided we avoid the churn.

OTOH, wouldn't somebody who cared about this want it for all of their
projects? I guess I just don't see the point in making this a
git-specific thing.

My version was "it is your personal preference, why should we cater
to it while we know we cannot do the same for everybody else who has
different preference?"

Your version is a lot more positive, while leading to the same
conclusion.  "It is your personal preference.  Even if we added it
ourselves, it would not help you with other projects".

As usual, you are more brilliant than I am here.