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

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

On 05.09.2020 07:17, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 08:01:30AM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> I'm aware, and hence I said "aim for". In cases like this what we
>> often do is adjust things incrementally, as lines get touched anyway.
>> Of course if you want to clean it up all in one go ...
> 
> What I've got has turned into a patch series.  There are some general
> .gitignore cleanup patches, followed by large mechanical fixes.
> 
> Who should be included as Cc for submitting these?  Usual pattern would
> end up including all the general maintainers on all patches.  The reason
> is several of these are taking pieces off of the top-level .gitignore and
> moving those to subdirectory .gitignore files which would have shorter Cc
> lists.  There wouldn't be actual effects at the top-level, merely those
> subdirectories.  Should only the maintainers for the subdirectories be
> Cc'd?

I don't have a good suggestion or strong opinion either way here.
I can see reasons for going either route.

Jan