Re: [GIT PULL] Kselftest update for Linux 5.6-rc4

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 3:26 PM Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> - Declutter git status fix from Christophe Leroy

I've pulled this, but just for future reference (and hoping for a
future cleanup patch): instead of putting things in the global
.gitignore file, do it in the relevant local one.

So you could just have added

  *.sh
  !run.sh

in 'tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/.gitignore' instead of doing

  # Generated lkdtm tests
  /tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/*.sh
  !/tools/testing/selftests/lkdtm/run.sh

in the top-level one.

That keeps things much better separated. It also incidentally means
that if a directory gets renamed, the gitignore file just "magically"
continues to work (if you rename the actual files themselves that are
named in gitignore, then that's obviously a different thing).

If you put it in the leaf directory, it also means that you don't need
the '/' at the beginning, because the local gitignore entries will
only affect that subdirectory (and any subdirectories under it).

So please put only "global" gitignore patterns in the top-level gitignore file.

              Linus