Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 2/2] qemu-ga: sample fsfreeze hooks

[Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 11:37:44 -0700
Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 12/07/2012 11:31 AM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> >>>> +++ b/.gitignore
> >>>> @@ -93,3 +93,4 @@ cscope.*
> >>>>  tags
> >>>>  TAGS
> >>>>  *~
> >>>> +!scripts/qemu-guest-agent/fsfreeze-hook.d
> >>>
> >>> Why? Do we expect to have *~ files in there?
> >>
> >> What does your question have to do with the patch, which isn't even
> >> touching the pre-existing *~ line?
> > 
> > As far I could understand the ! prefix in gitignore documention, it's
> > changing the *~ meaning for the fsfreeze-hoo.d directory, and I wanted
> > to understand why.
> > 
> 
> No, it is changing a much earlier line:
> 
> *.d
> 
> to say that this _particular_ .d is allowed to be committed.  It has
> nothing to do with *~.

Ah, now it makes a lot of sense, thanks Eric.

It would be nice to move it right below *.d, to avoid stupid comments :)

> Still, I have to wonder if we really want to store these files in a .d
> in the repository itself, or if we should store them under some other
> file name and only at 'make install' time insert them into a .d at the
> install destination.  It would clean up this confusion about the
> .gitignore as well as the change to the 'find' command during 'make clean'.

Well, now that I understand it both ways are fine with me (ie. what you
suggest and what's been implemented in this patch).