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| author | Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> | 2024-07-29 18:57:38 +0300 |
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| committer | Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> | 2024-09-01 14:33:33 +0300 |
| commit | 76be4f5a784533c71afbbb1b8f2963ef9e2ee258 (patch) | |
| tree | fc8867b844037eaa9735fd87fb6f7f61ffff8f05 /.gitignore | |
| parent | f1d87664b82aeeaa1be9ee22dc85a59fd5a60d63 (diff) | |
| download | linux-76be4f5a784533c71afbbb1b8f2963ef9e2ee258.tar.xz | |
Remove *.orig pattern from .gitignore
Commit 3f1b0e1f2875 (".gitignore update") added *.orig and *.rej
patterns to .gitignore in v2.6.23. The commit message didn't give a
rationale. Later on, commit 1f5d3a6b6532 ("Remove *.rej pattern from
.gitignore") removed the *.rej pattern in v2.6.26, on the rationale that
*.rej files indicated something went really wrong and should not be
ignored.
The *.rej files are now shown by `git status`, which helps located
conflicts when applying patches and lowers the probability that they
will go unnoticed. It is however still easy to overlook the *.orig files
which slowly polute the source tree. That's not as big of a deal as not
noticing a conflict, but it's still not nice.
Drop the *.orig pattern from .gitignore to avoid this and help keep the
source tree clean.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
[masahiroy@kernel.org:
I do not have a strong opinion about this. Perhaps some people may have
a different opinion.
If you are someone who wants to ignore *.orig, it is likely you would
want to do so across all projects. Then, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore
would be more suitable for your needs. gitignore(5) suggests, "Patterns
which a user wants Git to ignore in all situations generally go into a
file specified by core.excludesFile in the user's ~/.gitconfig".
Please note that you cannot do the opposite; if *.orig is ignored by
the project's .gitignore, you cannot override the decision because
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore has a lower priority.
If *.orig is sitting on the fence, I'd leave it to the users. ]
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to '.gitignore')
| -rw-r--r-- | .gitignore | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 7902adf4f7f1..58fdbb35e2f1 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -142,7 +142,6 @@ GTAGS # id-utils files ID -*.orig *~ \#*# |