syntax: regexp
# The recurrent (^|/) idiom in the regexps below should be understood
# to mean "at any directory" while the ^ idiom means "from the
# project's top-level directory".

# gnulib makes these silly backup files
^.*~

# This directory gets created by gnulib during the build. 
# It contains no Octave files.
^gnulib/

# These directories mostly contain cruft during build time, but they
# do contain some Octave code, so we gotta be a bit more careful about
# what we ignore here
^libgnu/.*\.([hc]$|sin$|valgrind$|charset$)
^m4/(?!ax_).+\.m4$

# Emacs tools create these
(^|/)TAGS$
(^|/)semantic.cache$

(/|^)Makefile\.in$
^INSTALL$

^aclocal\.m4$
^build-.*($|/)
^configure$
^autom4te\.cache($|/)
^config\.h\.in$

# e.g. doc/faq/OctaveFAQ.info
#      doc/interpreter/octave.info-4
^doc/.*\.info(-\d)?$

^doc/\w*/stamp-vti$
^doc/\w*/version\.texi$
^doc/interpreter/images\.mk$

# e.g. liboctave/operators/smx-op-inc.mk
^liboctave/operators/\w+-op-\w+\.mk$

^libinterp/dldfcn/module\.mk$