From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932459AbWACR0s (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:26:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751469AbWACR0s (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:26:48 -0500 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:38637 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750784AbWACR0r (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 12:26:47 -0500 From: Andi Kleen To: Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: [PATCH 23/26] gitignore: x86_64 files Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 18:26:41 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060103132035.GA17485@mars.ravnborg.org> <20060103171517.GB20001@mars.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20060103171517.GB20001@mars.ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601031826.42028.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 03 January 2006 18:15, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 05:39:06PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Sam Ravnborg writes: > > > > > From: Brian Gerst > > > Date: 1135744791 -0500 > > > > > > Add filters for x86_64 generated files. > > > > Please don't submit this patch. If anything such ignore lists > > for specific SVMs should be in a central place, but not spread > > everywhere. > > If we go for a central '.gitignore' then we will most probarly see a > file that is only added entries to, not removed. We saw that in the bk > days. And what's the problem with that? > Today there are 23 .gitignores in the kernel - including the ones > from this patchset. And next year .cvsignores and .svnignores and .hgignores and .whateveriscurrentlyenvoguesvmignores ? > In may other cases we avoid this central point of information disaster > and we shall avoid it for .gitignore too. Please do that outside arch/x86_64 then. -Andi