Re: [PATCH 1/1] perf bench bpf: Add missing .gitignore file

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 23 Jun 2026 at 17:32, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> .tmp is created as well.

Note that the top-level .gitignore makes sure that we ignore any
dot-files by default (along with a lot of the usual patterns, of
course - not just object files, but various other binary file
endings).

( Yes, gitignore files do allow overrides to "un-ignore" files too,
but almost nobody ever uses that, there's seldom any reason for some
top-level file to say "ignore all generated files of this pattern" and
then a subdirectory gitignore says "but not this pattern". Some crazy
directories do say "ignore everything" and then they explicitly
unignore some patterns, but honestly, that's a mark of a diseased mind
)

                Linus