Re: .gitignore files really necessary?

[Coywolf Qi Hunt]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:42:21PM -0500, Brian Gerst wrote:
> 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

How? An example? I think it firstly benefits development, like making diffs.

> don't affect the actual build, so it doesn't matter much if they arent't
> totally kept up to date.

But someone has to maintain them.

	Coywolf
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