Re: [PATCH v2 20/23] .gitignore: touch up the entries regarding Visual Studio

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

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--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore

@@ -230,6 +230,7 @@
  *.ipdb
  *.dll
  .vs/
-/Debug/
-/Release/
+*.manifest

This new line ignores the tracked file 'compat/win32/git.manifest'
that was added fairly recently in fe90397604 (mingw: embed a manifest
to trick UAC into Doing The Right Thing, 2019-06-27).

I wonder whether that's intentional or accidental.

This was an oversight of mine, my apologies. That line should go.

Good to see people finding glitches in topics that have graduated to
'master' not so long ago.  It would have been even nicer if we found
them while in 'next', but we are all human ;-)

More precisely, manifest files are something specific to Windows, where
you can embed metadata in an executable. Visual Studio auto-generated it
under certain circumstances, but recent versions seem not to do that
anymore.

I expect somebody who knows Windows .manifest better than I do to
come up with a one-liner patch with a single paragraph log message.
Or it can just be a part of a larger series that is the next batch
of Windows updates.

Thanks.