From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752208AbWAFDlD (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 22:41:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752285AbWAFDlD (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 22:41:03 -0500 Received: from quark.didntduck.org ([69.55.226.66]:24533 "EHLO quark.didntduck.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752208AbWAFDlC (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 22:41:02 -0500 Message-ID: <43BDE71D.3000103@didntduck.org> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:42:21 -0500 From: Brian Gerst User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060103) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Coywolf Qi Hunt CC: sam@ravnborg.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: .gitignore files really necessary? References: <20060106022531.GA7152@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20060106022531.GA7152@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 don't affect the actual build, so it doesn't matter much if they arent't totally kept up to date. -- Brian Gerst