Re: [PATCH 0/1] gitignore: ignore comments on the same line as a pattern

"Chris Zehner via GitGitGadget" [off-list ref] writes:

Why make this change?
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Add the ability to use # to put comments after ignore patterns. This is
useful for documenting the reason for particular ignore patterns inclusion
and structure.

Right now a common convention in .gitignore files is to group patterns by
similarity, using new lines beginning with one or more # characters as
headings to explain these groupings. This works well when clarifying why
broad classes of things are ignored, e.g. # build artifacts followed by
several patterns.

When leaving comments about a particular pattern it can be difficult to
distinguish comments about a single patterns from comments used for file
organization.

Not a good enough justification to break backward compatibility, I
would have to say.  If a single line is so tricky to deserve its own
comment, perhaps a group of lines can be separated with the next
group by a handful of blank lines for clarity (or the project can
adopt a convention that differentiates between comments on a group
and comments on an individual rule).