[ the off-topic zillion-ways-to-do-same-thing-in-*nix sub-thread ]
On 7/16/07, Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 16 July 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > Yeah. I was going for the general principle :) > > Even simpler to add --exclude-from=.gitignore to diff > Or build in a separate object directory, using the O=$my_objdir Kbuild option. That has a number of addition advantages, e.g. you can easily clean your object files using 'rm -rf $my_objdir' and if you grep -r the source, you don't find your search string in generated files.
Or just "cp -al" to create multiple trees at (almost) no disk cost that won't interfere with each other in any way, and makes the development process / generating patchsets trifle easier as well ... Or best of all, just start using git if you can ... ... ok, back to work now. Satyam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
