[U-Boot-Users] Subject: [PATCH] Git ignore generated files in sub-directory tools.

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:36:40PM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <1136841372.29751.56.camel at cashmere.sps.mot.com> you wrote:
> >
> > > What is this good for? All these files go aways when your run a  make
> > > mrproper ?
> > 
> > True.  But the interesting command before that is
> > usually "git status", where they show up, but should
> > not ever be checked in.  Separate concept that cleaning;
> 
> Correct. And this is why I reject this  patch:  I  use  exactly  this
> mechanism  to verify that "make mrproper" really cleans up everything
> it is expected to clean.

[Old thread...]

git ls-files -o does a better job identifying stale files.
git status is useful during a normal development practice where you do
not want to see loads of .o files that you know are there, but just want
to see that nothing new stuff is hanging around.

	Sam