messy bash.git history

[Eric Blake]

Chet,

I've noticed that your 'devel' branch in bash.git is rather messy;
basically lots of commits that snapshot the state of a directory, then a
followup commit that removes leftovers and stray files.  If you were to
set your .gitignore file (to make your exclusion list public) or your
.git/info/exclude file (to keep your exclusion list local to your
repository) to the file names that you normally clean up (such as *~,
*.old, *.save, *.orig; one per line), then your imports wouldn't create
those files in the first place, you wouldn't have to do cleanup commits,
and it would be easier to follow the history to see what really changed
without being inundated by all the noise on the side file
creation-deletion loops.

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