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, -- Jonathan Wiltshire jmw(a)debian.org Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51