Re: [PATCH] selftests/powerpc: Add .gitignore for powerpc selftests

[Michael Ellerman]

On Tue, 2015-01-13 at 17:16 -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
> Please add a commit log.
 
What does it need to say?

> On 01/13/2015 04:49 PM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  .../testing/selftests/powerpc/copyloops/.gitignore |  4 ++++
> >  tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/mm/.gitignore      |  1 +
> >  tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/.gitignore     |  3 +++
> >  tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb/.gitignore | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  .../selftests/powerpc/primitives/.gitignore        |  1 +
> >  tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/.gitignore      |  1 +
> >  6 files changed, 32 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/copyloops/.gitignore
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/mm/.gitignore
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/.gitignore
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/pmu/ebb/.gitignore
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/primitives/.gitignore
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/.gitignore
> 
> Please create a single .gitignore for all targets right under
> tools/testing/selftests/powerpc instead of multiple .gitignore
> files.

Why? Having separate files makes it less likely we'll get merge conflicts
between different test subdirectores, it also makes it more likely someone
adding a test will notice they need to update the .gitignore in the same
directory.

cheers


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