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@deepak deepak commented Apr 15, 2016

no need to specifically ignore compiled files and executables
as it will be under the target directory

this is as per this comment
in the rust repo

no need to specifically ignore compiled files and executables
as it will be under the target directory
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Is this a recent change in Rust or do we assume most users will be on the right version?

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elifoster commented Apr 15, 2016

This has been the case for as long as I have known about Rust, which is at least 2 years. Additionally, most Rust projects I've seen and worked on have had gitignores pretty much only consisting of the target directory.

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@elifoster cool - if there's a good example elsewhere we can cite I'm happy to run with this change!

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There's the issue in the Rust repo that @deepak linked. There is also all the Rust repositories which ignore solely target:

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@elifoster excellent, thanks!

@shiftkey shiftkey merged commit 2adb156 into github:master Apr 15, 2016
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deepak commented Apr 15, 2016

thanks @elifoster and @shiftkey

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nitinkgp23 pushed a commit to nitinkgp23/gitignore that referenced this pull request Oct 8, 2016
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