linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] gitignore: add *.bz2 and *.cpio to top-level; clean up usr/

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Date:	Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:30:57 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
CC:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org, paulus@...ba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitignore: add *.bz2 and *.cpio to top-level; clean up
 usr/

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> I would prefer to have *.gz and *.lzma pushed out to the
> directories where it matters.
> There global ignore rules will bite us one day.
> 
> So I did not apply neither this nor Peter's original patch.
> 

I'll be stronger even... if there *is* a compressed file that should be
added to git, *then* the user should explicitly add an override to
gitignore in the appropriate directory.  Because it is clearly the
aberrant situation.

	-hpa

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