Re: [PATCH] gitignore: Move ignores from global to subdirectories

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

On 28.08.2020 04:57, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> Subdirectories which have .gitignore files should not be referenced in
> the global .gitignore files.  Move several lines to appropriate subdirs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Elliott Mitchell <ehem+xen@xxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
> Hopefully the commit message covers it.  When moved to the subdirectories
> I'm using "./<file>" as otherwise any file sharing the name in a deeper
> subdirectory would be subject to the match.

May I ask why this last sentence isn't part of the commit message?

Jan