.gitignore hack

[bjfletcher]

Hi there,

I thought I'd start a discussion regarding putting things we want to install such as .scss-lint.yml into .gitignore.

That works nicely, and keeps the information in one place. But....

If we think about usability, readable & clean code, it scores 0 out of 10 on all counts.

I think it makes better sense to have a new install.yml file, with a comment at the top:

Download and install the following
Please ensure these are all in .gitignore

followed by a list of files we want to download and install:

download-and-install:
  ... list files here ...

[matthew-andrews]

i don't think the .gitignore hack is ‘0 out of 10’ bad although i do agree it's unusual (and unusual is normally bad in software development) but my opinion is less important nowadays.

i would definitely urge finishing the nbt -> nht refactor and rhys' latest n-ui stuff before changing everything around again.

i don't know how much pain this is causing you so please disregard this if it's a big problem but i feel nothing is ever perfect and if you are able to still be productive it may be wise to tolerate this until september………