From a044b9325b790c4c9762c4f4cc02e8c6c9a191a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Landon Curt Noll <github-mail@asthe.com>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 18:54:22 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Added comments & common excluded to .gitignore

---
 .gitignore | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 87adb3f..faf403b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# files and directories created during the building of calc and other Makefile actions
+#
+# NOTE: While many of these might be part of a released calc tarball, they are
+#	not consider development source.  Some other file(s) and/or programs
+#	generate these files.
+#
 .dynamic
 .hsrc
 Makefile.simple
@@ -81,3 +87,14 @@ sample_many
 sample_rand
 terminal.h
 ver_calc
+
+# other commonly excluded patterns
+#
+*~
+*.BAK
+core*
+.DS_Store
+*.dSYM/
+*.[oa]
+.*.swp
+*,v