> >I thought our .gitignore could do with a few entries added alright, I > >just never expected this one to be top of the list! While I don't think > >it does any harm, I'm just curious why you think it needs to be added? > > > >/Bruce > > I import all my DPDK dependencies as git submodules. When the submodules > contain unignored files, they get marked as dirty by git, and it makes > like difficult when it comes to updating my submodule pointers. > > Matthew.
So you cannot update submodules without filling .gitignore? I'm not a big fan of .gitignore because I like seeing what has been generated by looking at "git status". And it's not really needed in DPDK because compilation is often done in a separate directory. -- Thomas
