In Debian we have a build line:
find debian/mediawiki -depth ( -name ".cvsignore" -o -name ".gitignore" \ -o -name ".arch-ids" ) -exec rm -rf {} ;
It would be much nicer if this happened upstream as part of producing tarballs. Such files are only useful in checkouts, not snapshots.
(Is there a good place to report distributor pseudo-bugs or is this list acceptable?)
Thanks,