.gitignore files branch

[Chris Johns]

On 2/02/12 4:25 AM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>
> With some appreciated guidance along with trial and error,
> I have managed to create a branch on my personal repo
> called gitignore which should add the minimal number
> of .gitnore files (3) and delete the .cvsignore files.
>
> .gitignore - covers most of autotools generated files\
>
> contrib/.gitignore - adds INSTALL for this sub-tree
> since there is an INSTALL at the top of the tree.
>
> c/src/lib/libbsp/.gitignore - adds bspopts.h.in for BSPs
> since these shouldn't appear anywhere above here.
>
> If I am understanding correctly, my personal repo
> is at git://git.rtems.org/joel/rtems.git.
>
> You can view the branch at
> http://git.rtems.org/joel/rtems.git/log/?h=gitignore
>
> It is only two commits.
>
> Is it OK to push to the master upstream repo?
>

It looks fine to me. I did an analysis of all the .cvsignore files and 
extracted the list of files present and the only additions are related 
to running configure in the source tree which is something we do not allow.

Can '*~' be added for emacs backup files ?

Chris