If lists are in a completely arbitrary order, sorting them consistently
means that there is only one correct place to insert a new entry, avoiding
the merge conflicts that would occur if we always append new entries.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
Patterns in the top-level .gitignore match in all subdirectories, so
there's no need to repeat ourselves quite so much for generic
C, Autotools and gcov patterns.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
This is installed by default, but easy to filter out for embedded systems
or whatever.
Based on earlier work by Simon McVittie and Will Thompson
Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34140
Reviewed-by: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
2007-09-13 Ryan Lortie <desrt@desrt.ca>
migrate from cvs to git (cvs2svn -> git-svnimport).
* HACKING: update release/branch/tag instructions
* */.cvsignore: rename to .gitignore
also, clean up tags and branch names to conform to HACKING
