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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitignore: ignore top level build/ directory
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 15:05:20 +0100
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2016-12-13 12:02, Ferruh Yigit:
> On 12/13/2016 11:48 AM, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > RTE_OUTPUT defaults to build/.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
> 
> There is a similar patch:
> http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/11637/
> 
> If you want you can review/comment that one too.

Yes, sorry I've never commented above patch.

I do not like filling .gitignore because I prefer
seeing what is built or copied or whatever with "git status".
What is really the benefit of .gitignore?