Commit 3a51ff344204 ("kbuild: gitignore output directory") seemed to bother people who version-control output directories. Andre Przywara says: "Unfortunately this breaks my setup, because I keep a totally separate git repository in my build directories to track (various versions of) .config. So .gitignore there is carefully crafted to ignore most build artefacts, but not .config, for instance." Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/3/22/1819 Reported-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Makefile | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 5fe5431..70fc778 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -499,7 +499,8 @@ outputmakefile: ifneq ($(KBUILD_SRC),) $(Q)ln -fsn $(srctree) source $(Q)$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/mkmakefile $(srctree) - $(Q){ echo "# this is build directory, ignore it"; echo "*"; } > .gitignore + $(Q)test -e .gitignore || \ + { echo "# this is build directory, ignore it"; echo "*"; } > .gitignore endif ifneq ($(shell $(CC) --version 2>&1 | head -n 1 | grep clang),) -- 2.7.4