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On Sunday 11 November 2012 17:09:28 Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Sun, 11 Nov 2012, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > > timezone/version.h | 1 + > > > > > > I mean, why would anyone do that *in the future, accidentally*? > > > > because accidents happen. a single line added to gitignore is a trivial > > price to pay to help keep people from messing up in the future. > > My point is that this is not any more likely than any number of other > hypothetical accidents, and cluttering up .gitignore with random > implausible hypothetical accidents is just noise. You could equally do > this for any other file that has been removed from the source tree, or > proposed in a patch that was not committed, and it would be no more or > less useful. the difference is that this file is shipped in an external package that we pull into the tree in a semi-automated basis -mike
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