linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH] dontdiff: generate from gitignore

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Date:	Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:36:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
cc:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	samr <sam@...nborg.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] dontdiff: generate from gitignore

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
> Generate the "dontdiff" file from the .gitignore files.

t's not quite as simple as that, though.

The .gitignore files are fundamentally location hierarchy-aware, so a 
ignore entry in one subdirectory only affects that subdirectory 
(recursively), so if you flatten then, you should take that into account.

As far as I can tell, your script will generate lots of incorrect entries 
due to this. Eg, it will generate

	parse.[ch]

as a dontdiff pattern, because scripts/genksyms/.gitignore has that, but 
that means that now it will ignore parse.c in all the _other_ places, 
where it *isn't* a generated file (ie mm/parse.c).

		Linus
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