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

[Anshuman Khandual]

On 01/14/2015 07:45 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> 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.

Hey Michael,

I had already posted a similar patch in this regard along with the ptrace
patches last month. Thats why I mentioned in the cover letter that
gitignore updates for all these tests will come from that patch series
instead of from this one. 

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/2/80

Regards
Anshuman

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