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We could probably stand to have some organisation standards in repo roots, but I tend to agree that dotfiles aren't the way to go there. The project root is similar to
~/.configand the like: When you're there you should not be subjected to further hidden levels. Those config files are a significant part of the project.State files however, like all the stuff in .git, lockfiles and the like are generally¹ fine to hide away. Those are side effects of running other tools, not ordinary editable configuration. Same goes for cache—and both cache and runtime files should likely go in the ordinary XDG dirs rather than be something every project has to set up a
gitignorefor.If anything I'm more frustrated with the C projects that just plop every source file in the root directory.
¹ Just don't make it too easy to sneak unexpected crap in there. We don't need to make the next Jia Tan's job easier.