[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] gitignore: ignore top level build/ directory

Thomas Monjalon thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
Mon Dec 19 17:38:41 CET 2016


2016-12-19 16:14, Bruce Richardson:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 03:05:20PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 2016-12-13 12:02, Ferruh Yigit:
> > > On 12/13/2016 11:48 AM, Baruch Siach wrote:
> > > > RTE_OUTPUT defaults to build/.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch at tkos.co.il>
> > > 
> > > There is a similar patch:
> > > http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/11637/
> > > 
> > > If you want you can review/comment that one too.
> > 
> > Yes, sorry I've never commented above patch.
> > 
> > I do not like filling .gitignore because I prefer
> > seeing what is built or copied or whatever with "git status".
> > What is really the benefit of .gitignore?
> 
> I take the opposite view. I only like to see files that I actually care
> about in the git status. Any build artifacts should be ignored by git as
> they are not files that it ever should track. That way doing a build
> does not change the status of the repo as git sees it.

I use git status to see also the untracked files.
And build/ is just the default build directory.


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