[Buildroot] .gitignore in BR archives
Michael S. Zick
minimod at morethan.org
Sun Feb 7 13:32:31 UTC 2010
On Sun February 7 2010, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "Julien" == Julien Boibessot <julien.boibessot at free.fr> writes:
>
> Julien> Hello,
> Julien> in the BR tarballs (recent releases or daily snapshots), got from here:
> Julien> http://www.buildroot.org/download.html , there is a .gitignore file at
> Julien> the top of the directory hierarchy.
> Julien> Is this something you need or can it be removed for the next tarball
> Julien> releases ? (It can be problematic when de-archiving BR in already git
> Julien> versioned dirs.)
>
Perhaps just tell your archive tool to exclude it when un-archiving?
As in: tar --extract --exclude=PATTERN
Ref: man tar
Mike
> It's not that you *REALLY* need it, but it's nice if you're using git as
> the git status output isn't cluttered.
>
> I don't think it bothers people, so I would prefer to keep it in the
> tarball (we would need to do special handling to remove it). Other
> git-using projects like the Linux kernel also ships their .gitignore.
>
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