Re: dontdiff for 2.6.0-test4

Jeff Garzik
2003-09-02T01:24:33Z

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 01:07:41PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>>dontdiff must know about many things that 'make mrproper' need not care
>>about:
>>
>> files with ".bak" suffix
>> files with "~" suffix
>> BitKeeper, CVS, RCS, SCCS directories
>
>
> make mrproper already cares about all those.
> Fragments from top-level Makefile:

I stand corrected :) However, I think it's a tangent:

dontdiff is a file that's useful precisely because of the form its in.
So, as something that's proven itself useful to a bunch of people, I
definitely think it has a home somewhere in Documentation/* It need not
be referenced in any way by kbuild; that's not a big deal. The two
really serve different purposes.

Jeff