Skip to contentSkip to conversation

Fix and clean top .gitignore

PATCH New Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu 1 participant 1 message Jun 26, 2008

lore
Share & tools
lore
#0 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 Fix and clean top .gitignore

Removed vmlinux* rule because it matches too many useful files, replacing it with rules matching filetype by filename (e.g. *.gz). Also unignored .mailmap from the top directory. Added a comment telling the user how to check for tracked files being ignored.

---
 .gitignore |   12 +++++++++---
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
.gitignore +9 -3
index 9bb1cb6..869e1a3 100644
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 # subdirectories here. Add them in the ".gitignore" file
 # in that subdirectory instead.
 #
+# NOTE! Please use 'git-ls-files -i --exclude-standard'
+# command after changing this file, to see if there are
+# any tracked files which get ignored after the change.
+#
 # Normal rules
 #
 .*
@@ -18,19 +22,21 @@
 *.lst
 *.symtypes
 *.order
+*.elf
+*.bin
+*.gz
 
 #
 # Top-level generic files
 #
 tags
 TAGS
-vmlinux*
-!vmlinux.lds.S
-!vmlinux.lds.h
+vmlinux
 System.map
 Module.markers
 Module.symvers
 !.gitignore
+!.mailmap
 
 #
 # Generated include files
Signature · 1 line
1.5.5.4