Add some common files to .gitignore

Add some OS specific files and Eclipse project files, as well as the
top level build directory because it is recommended in the wiki to
perform your build inside of it.  Also ignore the autom4te.cache
directory.

[tlyu@mit.edu: minor commit message edits]

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3fd3b20ad757ac68c4107a4428f4dd7268cd9f0b..752683c06408bbbf51cd61c0338aa34c2c6ebed6 100644 (file)
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -15,6 +15,31 @@ obj/
 testdir/
 testlog
 
+# OSX files
+.DS_Store
+
+# Generated by Dolphin for individual settings for directories
+.directory
+
+# Files generated by merges
+*.orig
+
+# Windows thumbnail db
+Thumbs.db
+
+# Eclipse specific files
+.project
+.cproject
+.settings/
+.pydevproject
+.autotools
+
+# Ignore the build directory
+/build/
+
+# The autom4te cache directory
+autom4te.cache/
+
 /doc/version.py
 
 /doc/html/