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Re:Stop Using Git Ignore by eddiejaoude on Sunday August 18, 2024 @04:19PM (#41285129)
Thank you for reading and commenting. It is great to understand different people's perspectives.

From my experience the main downside of keeping the "guardrails on", people are less likely to learn about the importance of git global ignore and also with open source projects there can be a green square chasing game (which we also need to educate people on) - just thinking about this, more Pull Requests will come in with unwanted files though, which will be painful for contributors and maintainers, but could be a good lesson?

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Re:Stop Using Git Ignore by default-kramer on Sunday August 18, 2024 @04:22PM (#41285159)
You've mentioned the "green square game" a lot, and I don't see how this is a problem. If someone makes a PR that is nothing but the .gitignore file, you can just reject it in one second. (Unless it is a well-researched and well-justified change, in which case you can gratefully merge it.)
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Re:Stop Using Git Ignore by eddiejaoude on Sunday August 18, 2024 @04:28PM (#41285216)
I think as a solo maintainer on a project and getting many github notifications (and DMs about the notification) for their PRs every day, it had a negative effect on me.
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