Whitelist dotfiles instead of blacklisting?

[claudiorodriguez]

I was wondering, after seeing a new PR that adds .idea to the .gitignore, and actually taking a look at the file - seeing as how so many people with so many different IDEs and tools which generate dotfiles contribute to node, wouldn't it make more sense to whitelist the dotfiles that we want git to version, and blacklist all others? Or would this break something I'm not aware of?

I mean something like

.*
!.editorconfig
!.eslintignore
!.eslintrc
!.gitattributes
!.etc etc

[silverwind]

I like that approach, +1.

[jasnell]

Definitely seems reasonable to me.

[Fishrock123]

Might be a good idea at this point..

[claudiorodriguez]

I'll delve into the current dotfiles and work on a PR then

[claudiorodriguez]

I've created the PR, please let me know if I'm missing any trackable dotfile