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Message-ID: <20080730154127.GB21597@cs181140183.pp.htv.fi>
Date:	Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:41:27 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...ecomint.eu>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next V2] Ignore drivers/video/console/promcon_tbl.c
	conmakehash generated file

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 01:26:20PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:56:13AM +0200, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > Sorry for the previous version, I forgot reading that .gitignore files
> > should be per-directory in this case.
> > --
> > From: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...ecomint.eu>
> > Subject: [PATCH -next V2] Ignore drivers/video/console/promcon_tbl.c conmakehash generated file
> > 
> > Add drivers/video/console/promcon_tbl.c to the list of ignored files.
> > This file is generated by conmakehash against drivers/video/console/prom.uni.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...ecomint.eu>
> > ---
> > diff --git a/drivers/video/console/.gitignore b/drivers/video/console/.gitignore
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..ad0ad9b
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/video/console/.gitignore
> > @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
> > +# Generated conmakehash files
> > +drivers/video/console/promcon_tbl.c
> 
> Did you test this?
> I recall you should specify filenames relative to the
> path of .gitignore.

According to the manpage both should work.

But I'd personally prefer it without a path since that's more robust in 
case of directory moves.

> 	Sam

cu
Adrian

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