revert .gitignore?

[jprichardson]

Can we consider reverting the .gitignore patch? It doesn't work like people expect, see: #116 & #115.

I'm working on migrating a large project over and my .gitignore is huge. Standard (with .gitignore patch) reports no issues, which is incorrect, because versions before report thousands of lines. What I liked about standard before was that it was super simple to ignore files, just place the patterns in package.json. Now I don't know if it's looking in package.json first and then .gitignore or vice versa. Regardless, it's complicated the whole thing.

I can understand why one would choose .gitignore patterns, but I think we need to either get it near perfect or not at all IMHO.

@feross what are your thoughts?

[feross]

I think it won't be too hard to just fix up the .gitignore pattern matching to work correctly. Wouldn't that be the best solution?

We can always apply the package.json ignores after the .gitignore so you have an out if you need to un-ignore something.

[feross]

standard@3.7.0 removed support for .gitignore until we can make it work more reliably.