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From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add *.rej to .gitignore
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, jeremy@goop.org,
       torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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       David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> * David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>> From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>

>> > *.rej files really are unwanted.  If there are any .rej files, they can be
>> > found by some other means (perhaps git itself could warn when committing
>> > with *.rej files present, or add some distinct notion of "ignored files" vs
>> > "never commit" files).
>> > 
>> > (This effectively reverts 1f5d3a6b6532e25a5cdf1f311956b2b03d343a48)
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
>> 
>> I don't know about this.
>> 
>> I really want to know if there are reject files there if I am
>> checking to see if my tree is clean.
[...]
> Well, it depends on the workflow. You are making the assumption
> that everyone is using your workflow, and you are judging them
> based on that false assumption.

If different users need different .gitignores, you need a per-user setting.
Let there be ~/.git/gitignore.