From 81181bfa7cd2f0048318db4df876136a2ad95bb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 08:53:06 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Document the Git ignore configuration file.

---
 .gitignore | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3ffcb3a..4df7512 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,11 +1,27 @@
+# .gitignore
+# File path glob patterns for Git to ignore in this code base.
+# Manual page: ‘git-ignore(1)’.
+
+# Auto-generated by development tools.
 build-stamp
 TAGS
 .coverage
 htmlcov/
+
+# Auto-generated by text editors.
 *~
+
+# Auto-generated by build process.
 *.pyc
 build/
 dist/
 *.egg-info
 debian/tmp
 debian/files
+
+
+# Local variables:
+# coding: utf-8
+# mode: conf
+# End:
+# vim: fileencoding=utf-8 filetype=conf :
-- 
2.11.4.GIT