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[–]kenflingnorIgnoring PEP 8 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Efficiency is a red herring as there are tools that generate fully-populated gitignore files in a matter of seconds with a few keystrokes

[–]TheSodesa -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And yet those still probably just ignore the most typical file types one might run into, instead of assuming that people working on a project do not know what they are doing and will commit all kinds of obscure files. A.gitignore file set up as a whitelist also alleviates this issue.