[Buildroot] [PATCH] Handle defconfig as .config in .gitignore and distclean.

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Thomas, K?roly, All,

On 2015-12-28 09:20 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni spake thusly:
> On Sun, 27 Dec 2015 21:44:16 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> 
> > Unlike Jeremy, I'm perfectly fine with defconfig in .gitignore. It's the
> > distclean part I'm more concerned with.
> > 
> > On the one hand, it does make sense to remove it like we do remove
> > .config. After all, the user is king, and if he wants to remove
> > everything, why should we keep it? ;-)
> > 
> > On the other hand, I would see defconfig as really the quintessence of
> > the configuration, which the user explicitly saved. They could get quite
> > surprised if we now remove that file.
> > 
> > So, I'm a bit skeptical either way: keep it or remove it, I am unsure.
> > Let's lean toward the safe side, and ket's just keep it, for users that
> > were used to that behaviour, OK?
> 
> Since the defconfig file name is configurable (by means of
> BR2_DEFCONFIG), I don't think we should do anything special with it. So
> I don't think it should be in .gitignore and I don't think we should
> remove it upon "make distclean".
> 
> If we were do "rm -f $(BR2_DEFCONFIG)" to always remove the user
> configured defconfig, then it would remove configs/<foo>_defconfig if
> you started from that defconfig and do a "make distclean". Not good.
> And we can't have user-configurable file names in .gitignore I believe.
> 
> So I'm personally in favor of keeping things as they are today, and
> therefore reject the patch proposed by K?roly.

That's fine with me. I'll mark it rejected, then.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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