Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:30:27 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] gitignore: add *.bz2 and *.cpio to top-level; clean up usr/ |
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Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > Convinced with respect to the *.gz *.bz2 *.lzma or *.cpio extensions. > But I will continue to be reluctant to adding global entries, > as I have been beated from time to time by something > that was ignored but should not have been so. >
In general, in the particular case of the Linux kernel tree, I think that it's generally safe to add binary file types to the top level: we have *extremely* few binary files in the tree, and those are clearly special cases.
Text files or ambiguous types is another matter.
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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