From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Kacur Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] Add .tar files to .gitignore Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 22:33:13 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <1436531131-9186-1-git-send-email-jkacur@redhat.com> <1436531131-9186-5-git-send-email-jkacur@redhat.com> <20150714155830.GD21820@linutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: John Kacur , rt-users , Clark Williams , Thomas Gleixner , Carsten Emde To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Return-path: Received: from mail-wg0-f65.google.com ([74.125.82.65]:35504 "EHLO mail-wg0-f65.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752132AbbGNUdO (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Jul 2015 16:33:14 -0400 Received: by wgkl9 with SMTP id l9so1654352wgk.2 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2015 13:33:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150714155830.GD21820@linutronix.de> Sender: linux-rt-users-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 14 Jul 2015, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > * John Kacur | 2015-07-10 14:25:29 [+0200]: > > >Ignore .tar files too > > > >Signed-off-by: John Kacur > >--- > > .gitignore | 1 + > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > > >diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore > >index 1924e73bef67..ceee8bfb6e9a 100644 > >--- a/.gitignore > >+++ b/.gitignore > >@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ > > .* > > *.o > > *.tar.gz > >+*.tar > > *.d > > *.patch > > *.a > > Wouldn't it make sense to remove *.tar* and *patch from that list? > After all if "git status" shows you that those exists then step two > should be remove them, right? Why would you want to them around? > I don't know, I suppose it's a matter of taste, but there are a lot of legitimate reasons to have *.tar and *.patch files in your local repo, that you might not want to see in via git-status. This is pretty standard practice, the Linux kernel has these in .gitignore too, so I'm going to keep them in the list. Cheers! John