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kamesh akella

.gitignore should be a whitelist, not a blacklist

I wish you had a better choice of words, to start this article, we need to bring the change by being with our words of communication.

Great article nevertheless.

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Michael de Gans

Like someone said on the kernel mailing list, arguments against the language change don't scale. Allowlist and blocklist are perfectly suitable alternatives. The etymology doesn't matter.