A leading / in paths in a .gitignore file matches the beginning of the
path, meaning that for patterns without slashes, git will match files
only in the current directory as opposed to in any subdirectory.
Prefix relevant paths with / in .gitignore files, to prevent
accidentally ignoring files in subdirectories and possibly slightly
improve the performance of "git status".
To describe the script and config file format, so folks don't have to
dig through NEWS or the script's source to get that information.
The Makefile and conf.py are excerpted from the main doc/ directory
with minor simplifications and adjustments. The devel/nmbug/ scripts
are largely independent of notmuch, and separating the docs here
allows packagers to easily build the docs and install the scripts in a
separate package, without complicating notmuch's core build/install
process.
