From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751409AbWAFF6x (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 00:58:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751868AbWAFF6x (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 00:58:53 -0500 Received: from [218.25.172.144] ([218.25.172.144]:25095 "HELO mail.fc-cn.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751409AbWAFF6w (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 00:58:52 -0500 Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:58:45 +0800 From: Coywolf Qi Hunt To: Brian Gerst Cc: sam@ravnborg.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: .gitignore files really necessary? Message-ID: <20060106055845.GA12015@localhost.localdomain> References: <20060106022531.GA7152@localhost.localdomain> <43BDE71D.3000103@didntduck.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43BDE71D.3000103@didntduck.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:42:21PM -0500, Brian Gerst wrote: > Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I see you keep updating .gitignore files. That would be a never ending > > extra burden IMHO. May I suggest we all use KBUILD_OUTPUT instead to keep > > the source tree clean? Or am I missing you? > > > > Coywolf > > Seperate output dirs are nice for building release kernels, but for > doing development it makes things more difficult. The .gitignore files How? An example? I think it firstly benefits development, like making diffs. > don't affect the actual build, so it doesn't matter much if they arent't > totally kept up to date. But someone has to maintain them. Coywolf