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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitignore: add *.bz2 and *.cpio to top-level; clean up usr/
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:23:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A454A69.4050301@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090626222112.GB27048@uranus.ravnborg.org>

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> I would prefer to have *.gz and *.lzma pushed out to the
> directories where it matters.
> There global ignore rules will bite us one day.
> 
> So I did not apply neither this nor Peter's original patch.
> 

I think that's the wrong answer, unless we somehow end up with
compressed files in the source.  At the moment, a *.gz file in the
source tree is much more likely to be a file in use by the developer.

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-26 22:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-20 20:52 [PATCH] gitignore: add *.bz2 and *.cpio to top-level; clean up usr/ H. Peter Anvin
2009-06-21  7:32 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-06-26 22:21   ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-06-26 22:23     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-06-26 22:43       ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-06-26 22:51         ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-06-27  7:47           ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-06-27  8:41             ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-06-30  1:30             ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-06-26 22:30     ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-06-26 22:31     ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-06-26 22:46       ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-06-26 22:51         ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2009-06-26 22:26   ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput

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