From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46847) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TDVcq-0000Ja-Bc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 03:20:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TDVck-0005Gy-CT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 03:20:12 -0400 Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.4]:51426) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TDVck-00057N-2O for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 17 Sep 2012 03:20:06 -0400 Message-ID: <5056CF1A.5000702@web.de> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 09:19:54 +0200 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1347826267-5214-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> <5056378B.30403@weilnetz.de> <201209161655.23644.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <201209161655.23644.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ignore more generated files List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Mike Frysinger Cc: Stefan Weil , qemu-devel@nongnu.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-09-16 22:55, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 16 September 2012 16:33:15 Stefan Weil wrote: >> Am 16.09.2012 22:11, schrieb Mike Frysinger: >>> +libcacard/vscclient +a.out* +.gdb_history +core +gmon.out >>> +*.diff +*.patch +*.rej >> >> IMHO .gitignore should only contain files which are generated by >> a normal QEMU build. >> >> a.out*, .gdb_history, core, *.diff, *patch, *.rej are not QEMU >> specific and should be ignored in the user's GIT configuration. > > these files show up a lot when doing development on qemu, hence i > think they do make sense to be listed here. it also makes things > "just work" for all users rather than requiring every one to set > up their local system in the same way. plus, that would conflict > with repos that do want to merge these types of files (uncommon, > but not unheard of as test inputs). > > it's not like entries in this file "cost" anything at all. NAK. I'd like to see what is polluting my repositories, not ignoring it because that's the policy of someone else. Excluding *.rej is something I would _never_ do. If they lie around somewhere, something was not merged here - that's my policy. You are free to set your own core.excludefile. So please do not spread this to generic .gitignores. Jan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlBWzxoACgkQitSsb3rl5xQk5ACgoRORiSgWkWlhkz4YdE2zQ1ZB moUAoK8D5khm+Tz9QrcvKoAhpHOmz5pA =FgFo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----