Re: .gitignore files, take two

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 20:59, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 20:21, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>>> On tis, 2010-09-21 at 11:27 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> rather than global ignore patterns for *.a and *.so.[0-9]
>>>
>>> Probably rather *.so.[0-9.]+
>
>> Any particular reason not to just do .so.*?
>
> Just paranoia, I guess.  I can't actually see a reason why we'd have
> any committable files in the tree matching that pattern.  OTOH, we
> probably also need the same type of pattern for .sl and .dylib,
> so at some point a more conservative pattern would be wise.

Do we know what the exact pattern would be for .sl and .dylib? Are
they following the same basic pattern of .sl.<major>.<minor>?

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