On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 03:05:20PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 2016-12-13 12:02, Ferruh Yigit: > > On 12/13/2016 11:48 AM, Baruch Siach wrote: > > > RTE_OUTPUT defaults to build/. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <bar...@tkos.co.il> > > > > There is a similar patch: > > http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/11637/ > > > > If you want you can review/comment that one too. > > Yes, sorry I've never commented above patch. > > I do not like filling .gitignore because I prefer > seeing what is built or copied or whatever with "git status". > What is really the benefit of .gitignore?
I take the opposite view. I only like to see files that I actually care about in the git status. Any build artifacts should be ignored by git as they are not files that it ever should track. That way doing a build does not change the status of the repo as git sees it. /Bruce
