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

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Date:	Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:41:40 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
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

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 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).

Yes, that's one of the reasons that it contains "RFC" in $subject.
There's also no handling of !pattern .gitignore lines....

AFAIK, diff with a dontdiff file does not allow/support full pathname
hierarchies like .gitignore does, so this is probably a futile exercise.  ??

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~Randy
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