This level of tribal antagonism over ten quite commonplace bytes is IMO entirely overcooked, but it is an excellent demonstration of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_difference...

Me, I am pragmatic. I have set this in my local config and I've added it to my repos to be certain. Because it's ten bytes.

To be fair, if I submit changes and don’t notice I added .vscode / .idea / my_notes.txt / .DS_Store / .swp then it was a sloppy job and I shouldn’t expect the project to adapt to ignore every possible garbage file so that I can continue carelessly “git add .”-ing

I assume that’s why some open source maintainers don’t bother either - if you haven’t even looked at your diff before submitting then why should they?

No I just think they should be aware of what their OS is doing