On Wednesday, December 22, 2010 13:44:55 Michael Snyder wrote:
> 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?
> 
> *.a, *.la, *.lo....

... which are already handled in the top level and thus not relevant to gdb-
specific gitignore files
-mike