Patch Set 4: No score; No score

Robin meant the git mailing list which was used for EGit and JGit developer discussions before the projects moved to Eclipse:
http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git

you may try a query like :
http://search.gmane.org/?query=%2Bgitignore+%2Bjgit&group=gmane.comp.version-control.git