Re: [PATCH 0/5] gitignore: Clean up most of the gitignore mess

[Daniel Kiper]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 12:43:46AM +0200, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote:
> Daniel Kiper has asked me to provide the following set of four patches:
>
>   1. Split patterns into two groups.
>   2. Alphabetically sort the patterns within each group.
>   3. Add / to patterns which should have one.
>   4. Add missing patterns.
>
> However, I found that there was one step missing on the way to an
> easily readable .gitignore file, so I have added that additional
> step:
>
>   1. Split patterns into two groups.
>   2. Alphabetically sort the patterns within each group.
>   2a. Add leading / to all existing slash patterns.
>   3. Add / to patterns which should have one.
>   4. Add missing patterns.
>
> Some of the remaining no-slash patterns (i.e. those matching anywhere
> in the directory tree) might work with a leading slash, but I could
> not research all of them (especially for old code and optionally built
> files), so I have left those for now.

Except one nit which I fix before push,
  "Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <address@hidden>" for all...

Daniel