I have the following .gitignore file in patch arm/arm64/boot/dts: *.dtb qcom qcom.orig When I do a git status, I see this: modified: .gitignore modified: qcom/Makefile All of the other files in arm/arm64/boot/dts/qcom are being ignored, as request. However, the file "Makefile" is not being ignored. Why? What's so special about "Makefile" that git refuses to ignore it? -- Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.