[Buildroot] .gitignore in BR archives

[Michael S. Zick <minimod@morethan.org>]

On Sun February 7 2010, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "Julien" == Julien Boibessot <julien.boibessot@free.fr> writes:
> 
>  Julien> Hello,
>  Julien> in the BR tarballs (recent releases or daily snapshots), got from here:
>  Julien> http://www.buildroot.org/download.html , there is a .gitignore file at
>  Julien> the top of the directory hierarchy.
>  Julien> Is this something you need or can it be removed for the next tarball
>  Julien> releases ? (It can be problematic when de-archiving BR in already git
>  Julien> versioned dirs.)
> 

Perhaps just tell your archive tool to exclude it when un-archiving?
As in: tar --extract --exclude=PATTERN 
Ref: man tar

Mike
> It's not that you *REALLY* need it, but it's nice if you're using git as
> the git status output isn't cluttered.
> 
> I don't think it bothers people, so I would prefer to keep it in the
> tarball (we would need to do special handling to remove it). Other
> git-using projects like the Linux kernel also ships their .gitignore.
>