[PATCH libevdev] Review/update .gitignore files

[Gaetan Nadon]

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.