This is a generalization request inspired by
Overall, as long as there is a way to ignore arbitrary non-bids compliant files/folders via .bidsignore, there is really no reason to aggressively ignore all files/folders starting with . - there could be legit cases of people adding some configuration files for helper tools (e.g. codespell) etc.
I wonder what was initial motivation behind imposing such restrictions?
(I would definitely explicitly forbid/ignore known trash stuff like .DS_Store though ;) ).
This is a generalization request inspired by
Overall, as long as there is a way to ignore arbitrary non-bids compliant files/folders via
.bidsignore, there is really no reason to aggressively ignore all files/folders starting with.- there could be legit cases of people adding some configuration files for helper tools (e.g. codespell) etc.I wonder what was initial motivation behind imposing such restrictions?
(I would definitely explicitly forbid/ignore known trash stuff like
.DS_Storethough ;) ).