Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH trivial] gitignore: unignore *.patch

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 06/12/13 13:51, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 06.06.2013 01:22, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> Personally I think a lot of the random rubbish in
>> our .gitignore is bogus and should be removed.
>> Basically anything that's an editor dropping or
>> .patch or TAGS file or similar is a local workflow
>> thing and should be dealt with by setting up a global
>> ignorefile in your local git config. The only
>> things in the .gitignore in the public repo should
>> be files which QEMU's build process itself creates.
>>
>> But I know not everybody agrees with this, which is
>> why all this stuff is in the .gitignore :-)
> 
> I'm one of the few who completely agrees, there's no
> place for various random rubbery in there, only things
> which are really generated during build should be there.
> 
> I'd really love to remove all the cruft.  But who else
> disagrees?

I agree that .gitignore should list only files produced by the build
process. Anything else can be added to a global ignore file (which I
haven't heard of before, but it probably does exist :)), *or* to

  .git/info/exclude

(recommended by Eric Blake to me some months back)

This file is not tracked like .gitignore, but it doesn't need tracking.

Laszlo