Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 01 Sep 2003 13:07:41 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: dontdiff for 2.6.0-test4 |
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Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 04:39:58PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >>>I have updated dontdiff in the usual place: >>> http://www.moses.uklinux.net/patches/dontdiff >>>/usr/src/linux/Documentation/SubmittingPatches >> >>Btw, what about putting this somewhere in the kernel tree? > > > I do not like dontdiff to be part of the kernel tree. > What is included in dontdiff is redundant information already known > by kbuild. Effectively dontdiff should not list any files that would > not be removed during a "make mrproper".
This is not exactly true.
dontdiff must know about many things that 'make mrproper' need not care about:
files with ".bak" suffix files with "~" suffix BitKeeper, CVS, RCS, SCCS directories
etc.
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