linux-kernel - [PATCH] kbuild: do not overwrite .gitignore in output directory

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Date:   Tue, 26 Mar 2019 13:26:58 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>,
        Vladimir Kondratiev <vladimir.kondratiev@...ux.intel.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] kbuild: do not overwrite .gitignore in output directory

Commit 3a51ff344204 ("kbuild: gitignore output directory") seemed to
bother people who version-control output directories.

Andre Przywara says:
"Unfortunately this breaks my setup, because I keep a totally separate
git repository in my build directories to track (various versions of)
.config. So .gitignore there is carefully crafted to ignore most build
artefacts, but not .config, for instance."

Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/3/22/1819
Reported-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
---

 Makefile | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 5fe5431..70fc778 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -499,7 +499,8 @@ outputmakefile:
 ifneq ($(KBUILD_SRC),)
 	$(Q)ln -fsn $(srctree) source
 	$(Q)$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/mkmakefile $(srctree)
-	$(Q){ echo "# this is build directory, ignore it"; echo "*"; } > .gitignore
+	$(Q)test -e .gitignore || \
+	{ echo "# this is build directory, ignore it"; echo "*"; } > .gitignore
 endif
 
 ifneq ($(shell $(CC) --version 2>&1 | head -n 1 | grep clang),)
-- 
2.7.4