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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] gitignore: ignore top level build/ directory
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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@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.

/Bruce