The .gitignore was made this way in case the dotfiles were pulled directly into the home folder to prevent extra files from being added, but in practice I just never do that and having to add a new entry for each new file is an unnecesary complication.
The
.gitignore
was made this way in case the dotfiles were pulled directly into the home folder to prevent extra files from being added, but in practice I just never do that and having to add a new entry for each new file is an unnecesary complication.This is related to #3.