The patch titled Subject: .gitignore: ignore *.tar has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is gitignore-ignore-tar.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/gitignore-ignore-tar.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/gitignore-ignore-tar.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrey Skvortsov <andrej.skvortzov@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: .gitignore: ignore *.tar Running make tar-pkg results in following: # Untracked files: # (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed) # # linux-4.0.0-rc3-next-20150313-150225--x86.tar This patch makes git ignore *.tar files. Running 'git ls-files -i --exclude-standard' does not show any tar files excluded from tracking after the change. Signed-off-by: Andrey Skvortsov <andrej.skvortzov@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Benjamin Romer <benjamin.romer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- .gitignore | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN .gitignore~gitignore-ignore-tar .gitignore --- a/.gitignore~gitignore-ignore-tar +++ a/.gitignore @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ *.order *.elf *.bin +*.tar *.gz *.bz2 *.lzma _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from andrej.skvortzov@xxxxxxxxx are gitignore-ignore-tar.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html