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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:30:27 -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: > > Convinced with respect to the *.gz *.bz2 *.lzma or *.cpio extensions. > But I will continue to be reluctant to adding global entries, > as I have been beated from time to time by something > that was ignored but should not have been so. > In general, in the particular case of the Linux kernel tree, I think that it's generally safe to add binary file types to the top level: we have *extremely* few binary files in the tree, and those are clearly special cases. Text files or ambiguous types is another matter. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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