[PATCH libevdev] Review/update .gitignore files

[Peter Hutterer]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 08:24:59AM -0500, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> On 13-11-18 06:47 PM, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > it's less the gitignore file changing and more that there isn't really a
> > reference gitignore that people use. so loads of projects start with a new
> > one, adding and modifying it over time. if there was a reference one (and I
> > just use the one from a random xorg tree) this would likely help a lot.
> I am with you on that. Recently a few new xorg modules were born, but
> rather than copying from any of the well maintained hundreds of modules,
> they picked some really old one.
> 
> There was one attempt to design a mechanism to provide autogen.sh in
> util-macros, but it had it's own problems.

just for the archives, I posted a comment related to this on G+ and two
useful links I got there were:
    https://github.com/github/gitignore
    https://github.com/behdad/git.mk

Cheers,
  Peter