linux-kernel - Re: [patch 3/3, resend] kbuild: correctly skip tilded backups in localversion files

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Message-ID: <12c511ca0702121409t30e126dfh445d13dd2f637e08@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:09:49 -0800
From:	"Tony Luck" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	"Oleg Verych" <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>,
	"Roman Zippel" <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	"Bastian Blank" <bastian@...di.eu.org>,
	"Sam Ravnborg" <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/3, resend] kbuild: correctly skip tilded backups in localversion files

On 2/5/07, Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz> wrote:
> kbuild: correctly skip tilded backups in localversion files
>
>  Tildes as in path as in filenames are handled correctly now:
>  only files, containing tilde '~', are backups, thus are not valid.

Git bisect fingers this patch (which is in Linus' tree as commit
76c329563c5b8663ef27eb1bd195885ab826cbd0) as the culprit
for double adding the contents of the localversion file.  E.g.

$ echo -tiger-smp > localversion
$ make prepare
$ make kernelrelease
2.6.20-tiger-smp-tiger-smp

-Tony
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