From baf774516fd81aaff1f8a998f20f9d6a706a638f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ·𐑑𐑴𐑕𐑑𐑩𐑤
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2025 19:37:20 +0000
Subject: differentiating ignore vs. boring file & documenting

---
 .boring    | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 .ignore    | 31 ++++++++++---------------------
 README.rst |  7 ++++---
 3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 .boring

diff --git a/.boring b/.boring
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6ff7a8f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.boring
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# OCaml
+(^|/)_build($|/)
+\.(a|annot|cma|cmi|cmo|cmx|cmxa|cmxs|o|merlin)$
+
+# Nix
+result*($|/)
+
+# Direnv
+\.envrc$
+(^|/)\.direnv($|/)
+
+# NO to Docker
+Dockerfile
+docker-compose
+
+# NO to Microsoft
+.*\.code-workspace
+\.devcontainer/($|/)
+(^|/).github($|/)
+(^|/).vscode($|/)
+
+# NO to invasive configs
+(^|/)\.husky($|/)
+\.pre-commit-config.(yaml|yml)$
diff --git a/.ignore b/.ignore
index 311b2ed..47a05bf 100644
--- a/.ignore
+++ b/.ignore
@@ -1,25 +1,14 @@
-/_build
+# Darcs
+_darcs/
+
+# OCaml
+_build/
+*.(a|annot|cma|cmi|cmo|cmx|cmxa|cmxs|o|merlin)
 
 /result
 /result-*
-/.direnv
-/.envrc
-
-/tmp
-/logs
-
-# NO to Microsoft
-devcontainer.json
-.*.code-workspace
-.devcontainer
-.github
-.vscode
-
-# NO to Docker
-Dockerfile
-docker-compose
+.direnv
+.envrc
 
-# NO to invasive configs
-.husky
-.pre-commit-config.yaml
-.pre-commit-config.yml
+tmp/
+logs/
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 460c7e0..1fca755 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -147,13 +147,14 @@ As they say: read the manpages
 	$ man nixtamal-manifest
 
 
-Building
+Building / hacking
 ===============================================================================
 
 .. code:: console
 
-	$ nix-shell -p darcs \
-		--run "darcs clone https://darcs.toastal.in.th/nixtamal/trunk/ nixtamal"
+	$ nix-shell -p darcs
+	$ darcs clone https://darcs.toastal.in.th/nixtamal/trunk/ nixtamal
+	$ darcs setpref boringfile .boring
 	$ cd nixtamal
 	$ nix-build
 
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