[PATCH] Revert ".gitignore: Ignore cscope and other *tags files"

[Martin Kletzander]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 03:40:44PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 15:38:11 +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 03:32:20PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
>> > On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 15:28:29 +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote:
>> > > This reverts commit f2d379e7cb802f922409c35e4831ee52a2162486.  On top of that it
>> > > also removes the `/tags` file because we don't even have the `make tags` target
>> > > any more.  Any tool-related ignores should go to user's global ignore file or
>> > > the user's local exclude file which is per-project.  See git-config(1) and
>> > > gitignore(5) for more details.
>> >
>> > We still carry '.ctags'. With that directory you don't need any fancy
>> > 'make tags' because simply running 'ctags' in the source code directory
>> > just does the right thing.
>> >
>>
>> So /tags it's not needed in the .gitignore either.
>
>I don't quite follow why. Running 'ctags' with the configuration we have
>in the repository creates an untracked 'tags' file which we don't want
>to commit/distribute.
>

Oh, and that creates the tags file, I misunderstood the first comment
then, I'll remove the removal of /tags from the commit then.
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