Re: [PATCH] kbuild: add *.rej pattern to .gitignore

[AmÃrico Wang]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 05:31:34PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
>On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, AmÃÂrico Wang wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 01:47:29PM +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
>> >Tell git to ignore .rej files, generated by patch(1).
>> >
>> >Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@xxxxxx>
>> 
>> NACK.
>> 
>> You have to handle *.rej files, not leaving them there.
>
>Hm? I know I have to handle them, and I do handle them, but IMHO it's 
>entirely valid and up to the user to leave them where they are. You could 
>apply similar argument to *.orig or to *~ files. In other words, I'm not 
>convinced.
>

I am not the only people who is against this, there
was a discussion about this before, please search lkml
archive.

Thanks.
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