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

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <20060219210901.GA23565 at mars.ravnborg.org> you wrote:
>
> If all files created during a build are included in .gitignore files
> then if you issue: 'git status' at any point in time (no need to
> run mrproper) you will get an overview over:
> - modified files
> - new files (listed as untracked files)
> and more importanly the git status output is not cluttered with a lot of
> 'build noise'.

What prevents you from running "make mrproper"  before  running  "git
status" ?

This gives you the  *additional*  bebefit  to  see  if  any  of  your
Makefiles misses to clean some files...

> If you then like to check the properness of make mrproper
> you issue 'make mrproper' and then what was not cleaned 
> by 'make mrproper' shows up with 'git ls-files-o'.

-> git ls-files-o
git: 'ls-files-o' is not a git-command

;-)

TIMTOWTDI...

I don't see any significant benefit. It's simply not worth the time.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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