Re: [PATCH] gitignore: add *.bz2 and *.cpio to top-level; clean upusr/

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Jun 26 2009 - 18:31:24 EST


Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> I would prefer to have *.gz and *.lzma pushed out to the
> directories where it matters.
> There global ignore rules will bite us one day.
>
> So I did not apply neither this nor Peter's original patch.
>

I think that's the wrong answer, unless we somehow end up with
compressed files in the source. At the moment, a *.gz file in the
source tree is much more likely to be a file in use by the developer.

-hpa

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