On Tue, 14 Jul 2015, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > * John Kacur | 2015-07-10 14:25:29 [+0200]: > > >Ignore .tar files too > > > >Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@xxxxxxxxxx> > >--- > > .gitignore | 1 + > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > > >diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore > >index 1924e73bef67..ceee8bfb6e9a 100644 > >--- a/.gitignore > >+++ b/.gitignore > >@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ > > .* > > *.o > > *.tar.gz > >+*.tar > > *.d > > *.patch > > *.a > > Wouldn't it make sense to remove *.tar* and *patch from that list? > After all if "git status" shows you that those exists then step two > should be remove them, right? Why would you want to them around? > I don't know, I suppose it's a matter of taste, but there are a lot of legitimate reasons to have *.tar and *.patch files in your local repo, that you might not want to see in via git-status. This is pretty standard practice, the Linux kernel has these in .gitignore too, so I'm going to keep them in the list. Cheers! John -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html