It should not be in the distribution. It's an internal detail that's relevant only if you're using GIT. paul On Jul 25, 2012, at 11:12 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:

It's not clear to me that the .gitignore file should be part of the tzcode or tzdata distributions, as it's needed only if you've gotten the files from the git repository, so for now the Makefile is not modified to add this to one or the other distribution.

--- .gitignore | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) create mode 100644 .gitignore

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d36f26e --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +*.o +*.tar.gz +*.txt +*~ +ChangeLog +tzselect +version.h +yearistype +zdump +zic -- 1.7.9.5