[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] git: ignore build directory

[Thomas Monjalon]

21/03/2016 18:56, Stephen Hemminger:
> The mk environment in DPDK puts files in build/ directory
> so it makes sense to have a .gitignore file to skip that
> directory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> ---
>  .gitignore | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
> index e69de29..5dc652b 100644
> --- a/.gitignore
> +++ b/.gitignore
> @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
> +*.orig
> +*.rej
> +*~
> +
> +build


Seems I never replied to this proposal.

I think .orig, .rej and other files should appear in git status.

About the "build" directory, yes it could be ignored.
But then we could ignore the default build directory and not other
build directories with specific names? Looks not consistent.