From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751467AbWACTOw (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 14:14:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751456AbWACTOw (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 14:14:52 -0500 Received: from quark.didntduck.org ([69.55.226.66]:11970 "EHLO quark.didntduck.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751459AbWACTOv (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 14:14:51 -0500 Message-ID: <43BACD20.8050601@didntduck.org> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:14:40 -0500 From: Brian Gerst User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: Sam Ravnborg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 23/26] gitignore: x86_64 files References: <20060103132035.GA17485@mars.ravnborg.org> <11362947263966@foobar.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. > It makes good sense to have .*ignore files in the same directory as the Makefile that produces the ignored files. They are more likely to be maintained when they are in the same location. Git is the SCM du jour for kernel work. If you chose to use another SCM then these files don't hinder you at all. -- Brian Gerst