Commit f7114e61db removed these lines as being "old and obsolete". cscope may be old, but it is still very much useful and used (i.e. *not* obsolete), and having the files show up as "Untracked files:" every time git status is run is annoying. Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine(a)redhat.com&gt; --- I'm not sure why I didn't notice this omission until now, but a couple weeks ago it resulted in my accidentally committing my cscope.out and cscope.files to git (fortunately I noticed it before I posted the patch!) It could be argued (as abologna did on IRC) that users should just add these to their private user-global .gitignore, but if that's the case, then the vim and emacs-related files should also be removed from libvirt's .gitignore (also suggested by abologna :-)). However if you do that, then any time you checkout libvirt on some random new machine where you haven't imported your personal home directory template will end up showing these by-product files. Also, somebody newly entering the project will potentially have the files showing up and bothering them. Anyway, I'm not necessarily advocating for re-adding the cscope files, but sending a patch seemed to be like the most useful way of discussing it. .gitignore | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 6d44a50061..feb2bcb017 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ .#* *~ +# cscope related ignores +cscope.files +cscope.in.out +cscope.out +cscope.po.out + # git related ignores *.rej *.orig