.gitignore: remove editor- and OS-specific files

Whenever Vim opens a file, it creates a .<filename>.swp file in the same directory as the file. Emacs adds *~ backup files. macOS creates .DS_Store files. Other editors and OS' surely do their own thing. Rather than add each one's own swap/backup file to this .gitignore, encourage users to add the corresponding items to their system-wide gitignore files. Change-Id: I5535f5d2f1ebe896eef108cfda087dcb4c50f031 Signed-off-by: Matthew DeVore <[email protected]>
wboult · Apr 1, 2019 · 54bdeaa · 54bdeaa
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 /.project
 /target
-.DS_Store
 infer-out
 bazel-*
-*~
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+# Do not add editor- and OS-specific files like *~ (Emacs) and .DS_Store
+# (macOS). Instead, add them to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore
+# (~/.config/git/ignore if $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set) or
+# $GIT_DIR/info/exclude. See "git help gitignore" for details.