Ignore *~ files such as generated by Emacs and other editors.

[marnen]

Since many text editors create files named with a ~ suffix as temp files, I created a rudimentary .gitignore file to ignore these files, as is common practice.

[dstillman]

You can set your own ignores, globally or locally, in your own Git config files. There's no reason this particular repo needs this to be set for everyone.

[marnen]

@dstillman I'm well aware of local Git exclusion. But it's common practice on every other project I've worked on to have a global .gitignore file with certain files that everyone would want to ignore. I believe this should be in the repo so that everyone doesn't have to set it. Anyway, this pull request is now superseded by #26 (which I made before seeing your comment here).

[dstillman]

Excluding files actually generated by the project (as in #26) is fine. But there's no need for the project's .gitignore to deal with people's own editor-generated files, which they can exclude for all their repos if they use such an editor.

[marnen]

Excellent point.