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by nickysielicki 117 days ago
> Having 100 tiny gitignores makes finding out why something is excluded annoying. Our policy is one root level gitgnore and gitkeeps where required.

This is not a complicated or important enough problem to justify a team-wide policy. Let it work itself out naturally.

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-check-ignore makes it trivial to debug repo-wide gitignore behavior.

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We could say that practically all problems would work them self out one way or another.

I heard facebook allows any language as long as you have packaged it neatly with all required build chain. (I.e. Even a choice of language works out)

Some lowest common denominator will be reached. (1 :) )

On the other hand: Are we happy with the lowest or do we want to aim higher?