Re: [RFC PATCH] Script for generating Documentation/dontdiff from .gitignore files.

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:23:57 +0300 Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu wrote:

> .gitignore files get more testing than Documentation/dontdiff, since most
> developers follow Git workflow when sending patches. The latter tends to
> stay outdated and needs to be synchronized every now and then. This patch
> provides a script that scans all .gitignore files and generates a
> Documentation/dontdiff to stdout.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>

Hi,
You probably missed (& should read) this thread:
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/12/154


> ---
>  scripts/gen_dontdiff.sh |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100755 scripts/gen_dontdiff.sh
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/gen_dontdiff.sh b/scripts/gen_dontdiff.sh
> new file mode 100755
> index 0000000..cd94747
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/scripts/gen_dontdiff.sh
> @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
> +#!/bin/bash
> +
> +# Copyright (C) 2008 Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
> +#
> +# This file is released under GPL version 2.
> +
> +echo "### Generated by gen_dontdiff.sh ###"
> +
> +grep -Ev "^([[:space:]]*[[#]]*|$)" .gitignore
> +
> +find . -mindepth 2 -name .gitignore | sed -e "s/^\.\///g" | while read FILE
> +do
> +	CURR_DIR=`echo "$FILE" | sed -e "s/\.gitignore$//g"`
> +	echo "# $FILE"
> +	grep -Ev "^([[:space:]]*[[#]]*|$)" $FILE | while read LINE
> +	do
> +		echo $CURR_DIR$LINE
> +	done
> +	echo ""
> +done
> +
> -- 

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~Randy
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