On Wednesday, December 22, 2010 06:24:18 Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:45:18 +0400
> > From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> > 
> > I'm OK but slightly hesitant to introduce a .gitignore for files that
> > are compilation artifacts, not development artifacts.  If we start
> > on that road, the list is possibly quite long.
> 
> How long can it be?  Something like *.o, *.so, *.exe, and a couple of
> binaries we produce?  Is that really a problem?

the higher level gitignores already take care of the common ignores.  subdirs 
need to only mention their specific generated files.
-mike