The .*.swp files are created by vim to hold the undo/redo log. Add them to .gitignore to prevent "git status" or "git gui" from showing them whenever some file is open in editor.
Add also *.patch to hide patches created by e.g. "git format-patch". Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkube...@suse.cz> --- .gitignore | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index f1165a2c9037..c4df588c37ea 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -27,3 +27,6 @@ autom4te.cache .deps test-*.log test-*.trs + +.*.swp +*.patch -- 2.22.0