Re: [PATCH] gitignore: add *.bz2 and *.cpio to top-level; clean upusr/

[H. Peter Anvin]

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> I would prefer to have *.gz and *.lzma pushed out to the
> directories where it matters.
> There global ignore rules will bite us one day.
> 
> So I did not apply neither this nor Peter's original patch.
> 

I think that's the wrong answer, unless we somehow end up with
compressed files in the source.  At the moment, a *.gz file in the
source tree is much more likely to be a file in use by the developer.

	-hpa

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