Re: .gitignore files really necessary?

[Brian Gerst]

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.

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				Brian Gerst
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