From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f52.google.com (mail-wm0-f52.google.com [74.125.82.52]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24687FA62 for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2016 17:38:43 +0100 (CET) Received: by mail-wm0-f52.google.com with SMTP id g23so98298558wme.1 for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:38:43 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=6wind-com.20150623.gappssmtp.com; s=20150623; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=azhQcp4xZYe8dd+k7g7ujzYgv4TgpOL0kQKPtOhuqR8=; b=XEdjbtVC4JGR6fcbMs4Hd/8PQybKbTdGBLSnGC2FHh2WiwBPFLwSkinMsKs1HZj9t8 kGhUrpYI+q36XUrUw/yOFIrGc1WjQruApsD7BKXfMvbd6z6uxSlZn+ddXZ9sQ1mtlcAg g5GX8K9GQ/ztu3aSlPrGaCvvZHu2bmFqGnghdWeLza2l+o0RmkFKkzL4zdCTQiTP3o/D IfIY9FcrBWEFx8/Y1Fu6n2NdAmJEFap+mVy8TmY1PGWIBB8FB+eWDri/2xw6xH2OONe9 9lwjGLn8MkCMbC8lJBHvG/BQkGO7UtZsKl/5xzyJwElAYpvTaT7F4K854uMfjxpvV6eX uRsw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=azhQcp4xZYe8dd+k7g7ujzYgv4TgpOL0kQKPtOhuqR8=; b=K6EZbEOKVFz1BWKzeP0GZuQnAmYtKz6QKCAV8y+LGuaJCKa8lAktkEKTk/lNoltASS nXesu8fJ9ptQEWbM8lqrOAJLlHEhtPKqqWpNnYj7KFfwApYkAobL07j/zRtqsmECTMeI tpfD0FFiQf9bBLrqcdbpGYDYbJvbFO58m8BIC4+GrWOyJzpL2bl1Yh+BIelh1rGkKdm1 kyeDOVB7xQzvQx/FJZvtx58Ru15p8GtBtlx/LN6kggdg7A7J2qYs9Op7c6g6eCuCfOUv 2WZQvRil5WEgHsgv6L25QwYP2/wxEFdrTloG0GCixP+jl1LZbU2sL6Bdm5tLdLWcu20a i7MA== X-Gm-Message-State: AIkVDXJIXKVc1ULabhUXy1BJ2AaFGOFE2gjbbUOQ6rDhcOt0iYURzdZGyQ/UOLsVMtq4cEBa X-Received: by 10.28.27.133 with SMTP id b127mr15513620wmb.59.1482165522774; Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:38:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from xps13.localnet (184.203.134.77.rev.sfr.net. [77.134.203.184]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id n5sm17914289wmf.0.2016.12.19.08.38.41 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:38:42 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Bruce Richardson Cc: Baruch Siach , Ferruh Yigit , dev@dpdk.org Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 17:38:41 +0100 Message-ID: <1604778.FlRJAu03j2@xps13> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.5.4-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.11; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20161219161422.GB166228@bricha3-MOBL3.ger.corp.intel.com> References: <2dfce93f986deb95eb5ac4773e020005d45f0c48.1481629710.git.baruch@tkos.co.il> <1984848.mjZxypNVZ9@xps13> <20161219161422.GB166228@bricha3-MOBL3.ger.corp.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] gitignore: ignore top level build/ directory X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 16:38:43 -0000 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 > > > > > > 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.