From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:58:49 -0600
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Add .gitignore files
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Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> I never felt the need for a .gitignore file; mayby you can explain
> what you need it for?

To keep the output of git-status clean.  I need to do a "make clean" in order 
for git-status to give me meaningful results.

Another reason for .gitignore is to avoid accidentally including target files in 
a patch.

> 	-> cg-status
> 	...
> 	? LOG/
> 	? board/amcc/yellowstone/
> 	-> git-ls-files --others
> 	LOG/cam5200.ERR
> 	LOG/cam5200.MAKELOG
> 	->
> 
> The first command shows me that there is a stale (empty) directory
> left, the second doesn't.

Hmmm... git-status doesn't show the LOG directory either.

If git-ls-files were updated to include empty directories, would you be willing 
to have .gitignore files?

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale