Hi Linus, On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 3:58 AM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 8:34 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Masahiro Yamada (46): > > kbuild: add a tool to list files ignored by git > > kbuild: make perf-tar*-src-pkg work without relying on git > > I've pulled this, but I really object to these kinds of silly games. > > That whole list-gitignored thing should go away, and silly > work-arounds for "I don't use git" should likewise just be killed. > > There's absolutely _zero_ exzcuse for making our build tools more > complicated for bad reasons. The "I don't have git" may have been a > reason a decade ago. It's *not* a valid reason today. We can say "You must install git on your machine", but IMHO "the kernel must be managed by git" is a too strong assumption because snapshots are delivers as a tarball (e.g. https://www.kernel.org/) I could be wrong, but that is my intent (as in the commit description). > > People who insist on using quilt etc should just realize that then > they don't get the featrues that git offers. > > You can't have your cake and eat it too. > > I do *not* want to see git functionality basically duplicated in some > kernel C helper script just because somebody can't be bothered to just > use git. > > Linus If tar's --exclude-vcs-ignores option had worked correctly, I would not have written such a gitignore parser by myself. When tar implements --exclude-vcs-ignores correctly, I am happy to remove this silly tool. (In turn, tar will end up with a similar gitignore parser as git, though.) -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
