Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:58:45 +0800 | From | Coywolf Qi Hunt <> | Subject | Re: .gitignore files really necessary? |
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On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:42:21PM -0500, Brian Gerst wrote: > Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I see you keep updating .gitignore files. That would be a never ending > > extra burden IMHO. May I suggest we all use KBUILD_OUTPUT instead to keep > > the source tree clean? Or am I missing you? > > > > Coywolf > > Seperate output dirs are nice for building release kernels, but for > doing development it makes things more difficult. The .gitignore files
How? An example? I think it firstly benefits development, like making diffs.
> don't affect the actual build, so it doesn't matter much if they arent't > totally kept up to date.
But someone has to maintain them.
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