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

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2026 at 05:42:58PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2026 at 17:32, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > .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
> )

Yeah, but having .tmp there its kinda like not depending on having the
prototype for a function indirectly obtained via some include chain, by
luck, having .tmp there documents that that thing is (or a strong maybe,
in the case of vmlinux.h) generated there and should be ignored.

Anyway, now it is ignored, doubly so in the case of .tmp.

- Arnaldo