cvsignore ?

[John W. Eaton]

On  2-May-2006, David Bateman wrote:

| If we are going to stay with CVS for a little while, one thing I'd
| really like to see added is the use of cvsignore files, so that I can
| more easily identify files that are in the source tree but shouldn't be
| or should be and aren't committed. Can I propose that the attached
| cvsignore files are added and committed?

If you build Octave in a directory separate from the source tree, then
the number of junk files that accumulate in the source tree is fairly
small and most (#*, *~) are ignored by CVS by default.

jwe