Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ignore more generated files

[Jan Kiszka]

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On 2012-09-16 22:55, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Sunday 16 September 2012 16:33:15 Stefan Weil wrote:
>> Am 16.09.2012 22:11, schrieb Mike Frysinger:
>>> +libcacard/vscclient +a.out* +.gdb_history +core +gmon.out 
>>> +*.diff +*.patch +*.rej
>> 
>> IMHO .gitignore should only contain files which are generated by 
>> a normal QEMU build.
>> 
>> a.out*, .gdb_history, core, *.diff, *patch, *.rej are not QEMU 
>> specific and should be ignored in the user's GIT configuration.
> 
> these files show up a lot when doing development on qemu, hence i 
> think they do make sense to be listed here.  it also makes things 
> "just work" for all users rather than requiring every one to set
> up their local system in the same way. plus, that would conflict
> with repos that do want to merge these types of files (uncommon,
> but not unheard of as test inputs).
> 
> it's not like entries in this file "cost" anything at all.

NAK. I'd like to see what is polluting my repositories, not ignoring
it because that's the policy of someone else. Excluding *.rej is
something I would _never_ do. If they lie around somewhere, something
was not merged here - that's my policy.

You are free to set your own core.excludefile. So please do not spread
this to generic .gitignores.

Jan

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