Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 23/26] gitignore: x86_64 files | Date | Tue, 3 Jan 2006 18:26:41 +0100 |
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On Tuesday 03 January 2006 18:15, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 05:39:06PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> writes: > > > > > From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org> > > > Date: 1135744791 -0500 > > > > > > Add filters for x86_64 generated files. > > > > Please don't submit this patch. If anything such ignore lists > > for specific SVMs should be in a central place, but not spread > > everywhere. > > If we go for a central '.gitignore' then we will most probarly see a > file that is only added entries to, not removed. We saw that in the bk > days.
And what's the problem with that?
> Today there are 23 .gitignores in the kernel - including the ones > from this patchset.
And next year .cvsignores and .svnignores and .hgignores and .whateveriscurrentlyenvoguesvmignores ?
> In may other cases we avoid this central point of information disaster > and we shall avoid it for .gitignore too.
Please do that outside arch/x86_64 then.
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