Re: git: b1f7154cb125 - main - gitignore: ignore vim swap files & .rej/.orig

From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin_at_cs.duke.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 01:25:22 UTC 
On 1/17/22 04:35, Alexander V. Chernikov wrote:
> The branch main has been updated by melifaro:
> 
> URL: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=b1f7154cb12517162a51d19ae19ec3f2dee88e11__;!!OToaGQ!4Lozvj8S2Opxre6qHuywX_aNhwm1heXl1CyQyb0N5f_fiBJEkTQGhLzE7KlqqP9C7A$
> 
> commit b1f7154cb12517162a51d19ae19ec3f2dee88e11
> Author:     Alexander V. Chernikov <melifaro@FreeBSD.org>
> AuthorDate: 2022-01-08 16:14:47 +0000
> Commit:     Alexander V. Chernikov <melifaro@FreeBSD.org>
> CommitDate: 2022-01-17 09:35:15 +0000
> 
>      gitignore: ignore vim swap files & .rej/.orig
>      
>      Reviewed by:    cem, avg
>      MFC after:      2 weeks


Hi,

I was wondering if you might consider reverting this change?
Alternatively, can you teach me how to override this file
locally without carrying a diff?

I'm asking because this makes life painful for my workflow.

Having git clean be able to handle .orig and .rej is incredibly
handy when applying large patch sets.  It makes finding a rejected
patch as simple as 'git clean -n | grep rej'.

Also, when directories are removed *AND* they have an errant
.orig or .rej file remaining in them, git rm will not garbage
collect the directory.  This causes the build to fail.  I used
to use the trick of 'git clean -nd' to find such directories, but
now they are hidden.   This scenario just cost me hours of parsing
make output, trying to figure out why my build had failed.

Thanks,

Drew