From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wg0-f42.google.com (mail-wg0-f42.google.com [74.125.82.42]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F90B7E9F for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 18:02:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail-wg0-f42.google.com with SMTP id z12so11270380wgg.25 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 09:10:03 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:organization :user-agent:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=Wc8hWlJLaoVVkNYjSZ/YAFzhWiIkyza5YdSGmwrStdQ=; b=do14SJfU1xRry8XG/RSAMBJk1HtwTDfRInj1nnc2/OFdXq4E4qJEKhs50fGxyvFWp4 k/KRPDzKDUgSbke4eh/0zuWn3CqXkZwWdmW2UA9SMZYu5yRPegfvSiutfsqKu0p+/JGG uIoYKkcHXPpidWuROPFeABq/lq05MjOch0rMQV4ycOZF1rwMrppwpieeXW+Avm1zVIkX Eua3vXONNcErxPgtbReXzGrm1glMQ8C5i1odz/sGUiCiaA9JWQ6H6M3wytnXZpCQ8fe/ 0JS9zNb/JkMNrqgnNE4hY2N85WdAaXymapIiNK3PH6BpBMsWgl6RtCoVbBXGEvQ9rkHI DhuA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnYrsYpPb62tVTkl89WvskPdC6eFbn24O3sfWcJd/JHL16gPpHDfEj20x6Sbvpl8Q5eWGor X-Received: by 10.180.91.19 with SMTP id ca19mr6480428wib.29.1413303003808; Tue, 14 Oct 2014 09:10:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xps13.localnet (136-92-190-109.dsl.ovh.fr. [109.190.92.136]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id p4sm6702659wiz.23.2014.10.14.09.10.02 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 14 Oct 2014 09:10:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Matthew Hall Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 18:09:49 +0200 Message-ID: <3422655.1tIybTbukh@xps13> Organization: 6WIND User-Agent: KMail/4.14.1 (Linux/3.16.4-1-ARCH; KDE/4.14.1; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1300A4C9-3CCF-48A9-8C33-901D700BAEB4@mhcomputing.net> References: <1413273236-1873-1-git-send-email-mhall@mhcomputing.net> <20141014094415.GB8912@BRICHA3-MOBL> <1300A4C9-3CCF-48A9-8C33-901D700BAEB4@mhcomputing.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: dev@dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] virtio-net-pmd: .gitignore: ignore librte_pmd_virtio.so X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:02:20 -0000 > >I thought our .gitignore could do with a few entries added alright, I > >just never expected this one to be top of the list! While I don't think > >it does any harm, I'm just curious why you think it needs to be added? > > > >/Bruce > > I import all my DPDK dependencies as git submodules. When the submodules > contain unignored files, they get marked as dirty by git, and it makes > like difficult when it comes to updating my submodule pointers. > > Matthew. So you cannot update submodules without filling .gitignore? I'm not a big fan of .gitignore because I like seeing what has been generated by looking at "git status". And it's not really needed in DPDK because compilation is often done in a separate directory. -- Thomas