Backported from kernel
commit 3a51ff344204 ("kbuild: gitignore output directory"
Signed-off-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodi...@linaro.org>
---
Makefile | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 48a0af51bdd6..6758ec4103e8 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -513,10 +513,13 @@ PHONY += outputmakefile
# outputmakefile generates a Makefile in the output directory, if using a
# separate output directory. This allows convenient use of make in the
# output directory.
+# At the same time when output Makefile generated, generate .gitignore to
+# ignore whole output directory
outputmakefile:
ifneq ($(KBUILD_SRC),)
$(Q)ln -fsn $(srctree) source
$(Q)$(CONFIG_SHELL) $(srctree)/scripts/mkmakefile $(srctree)
+ $(Q){ echo "# this is build directory, ignore it"; echo "*"; } >
.gitignore
endif
# To make sure we do not include .config for any of the *config targets
--
2.49.0
