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Haven't used archivers from the command line for the last few decades already, so I have a question: is it faster than using the appropriate tools? When using GUIs, some archive listings are opened almost instantly, others, like *.tar.zst, could take dozens of minutes...
P.S. There is actually no need to commit ".gitignore"
Disagree on the .gitignore file. If you're the only developer and you only work off of one machine then it doesn't need to be committed. In a team setting it's absolutely imperative to commit it.
It isn't part of the project/code.
How is it not part of the project?
It just isn't. It has nothing to do neither with code nor with compiling. The same tier of "partness" as /etc/fstab or something.
So everyone who contributes to the project should make their own gitignore on every development machine they use to prevent committing build files, secrets ect?
I don't understand why you say it has nothing to do with the code when it literally has nothing to do with anything BUT the code.
What is the downside you see to committing the gitignore?
You commit with add -A? Well, ok.
Usually
git add .It's much faster, easier and less error prone to go with the blacklist approach of the gitignore file IMO.
How do you ensure your teammates don't start committing their own IDE settings or committing "secrets.json" files or helper scripts or log files?
You never want build artifacts to be committed. You don't want to have everyone working on your project to need to setup their own gitignore for every project. So it makes sense to have a common commited gitignore for files the project produces that should never be tracked by git.
I dislike when people put in editor files in the gitignore though. People should setup global ones for their local tooling.
It only parses as little data as possible to get just file names, on some files like ZIPs it'll be just the header but on others like tar it'll have to walk through and seek to the start of each file. It should be pretty fast even on big files though