linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] sh: exclude vmlinux.scr from .gitignore pattern

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Date:   Wed,  1 May 2019 22:56:01 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] sh: exclude vmlinux.scr from .gitignore pattern

arch/sh/boot/.gitignore has the pattern "vmlinux*"; this is effective
not only for the current directory, but also for any sub-directories.

So, from the point of .gitignore grammar, the following check-in files
are also considered to be ignored:

  arch/sh/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr
  arch/sh/boot/romimage/vmlinux.scr

As the manual gitignore(5) says "Files already tracked by Git are not
affected", this is not a problem as far as Git is concerned.

However, Git is not the only program that parses .gitignore because
.gitignore is useful to distinguish build artifacts from source files.

For example, tar(1) supports the --exclude-vcs-ignore option. As of
writing, this option does not work perfectly, but it intends to create
a tarball excluding files specified by .gitignore.

So, I believe it is better to fix this issue.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
---

Changes in v2:
  - Add more information to the commit log to clarify my main motivation

 arch/sh/boot/.gitignore | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/sh/boot/.gitignore b/arch/sh/boot/.gitignore
index 541087d..f50fdd9 100644
--- a/arch/sh/boot/.gitignore
+++ b/arch/sh/boot/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 zImage
 vmlinux*
 uImage*
+!vmlinux.scr
-- 
2.7.4