Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH trivial] gitignore: unignore *.patch

[Peter Maydell]

On 5 June 2013 22:16, Michael Tokarev <address@hidden> wrote:
> This partially reverts:
>
>  commit 082369e62c5bbaba89f173c2b803bc24115bb111
>  Author: liguang <address@hidden>
>  Date:   Fri Mar 22 16:44:13 2013 +0800
>
>     gitignore: ignore more files
>
> I'm not sure how this went in.  The thing is that
> ignoring *.patch, in my opinion, is just wrong.
> Especially for downstreams who apply patches for
> real.

Personally I think a lot of the random rubbish in
our .gitignore is bogus and should be removed.
Basically anything that's an editor dropping or
.patch or TAGS file or similar is a local workflow
thing and should be dealt with by setting up a global
ignorefile in your local git config. The only
things in the .gitignore in the public repo should
be files which QEMU's build process itself creates.

But I know not everybody agrees with this, which is
why all this stuff is in the .gitignore :-)

thanks
-- PMM