Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:42:21 -0500 | From | Brian Gerst <> | Subject | Re: .gitignore files really necessary? |
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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 don't affect the actual build, so it doesn't matter much if they arent't totally kept up to date.
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