Probably because sometimes you want to check libraries into your project. For custom jars, I'd immagine you'd want to specify their paths exactly, or something like (bin|build)/*.jar
Can't you exclude all jars by default and add whatever libs you do want to check in? I don't know too much about git, but that is how I would do it in Mercurial. (In Mercurial, if you specify an explicit filename, it overrides .hgignore.)
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Probably because sometimes you want to check libraries into your project. For custom jars, I'd immagine you'd want to specify their paths exactly, or something like (bin|build)/*.jar
My point is that the Clojure one mentioned in the comment I was replying to does include *.jar.
Can't you exclude all jars by default and add whatever libs you do want to check in? I don't know too much about git, but that is how I would do it in Mercurial. (In Mercurial, if you specify an explicit filename, it overrides .hgignore.)
You can, you just need to use ``git add -f`` otherwise you get an error.