alt Hacker NewsOne of my favorite moments in HN history was watching the authors of the various search tools decide on a common ".ignore" file as opposed to each having their own: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12568245
One of my favorite moments in HN history was watching the authors of the various search tools decide on a common ".ignore" file as opposed to each having their own: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12568245
I would argue that grep-like tools which read .gitignore violate the Principle of Least Astonishment (POLA). It would be fine if there were a --ignore flag to enable such functionality, but defaulting to it just feels wrong to me. Obviously smarter people than I disagree, but my dumdum head just feels that way.