Re: [U-Boot-Users] Subject: [PATCH] Git ignore generated files in sub-directory tools.

In message 1136841372.29751.56.camel@cashmere.sps.mot.com you wrote:

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What is this good for? All these files go aways when your run a make mrproper ?

True. But the interesting command before that is usually "git status", where they show up, but should not ever be checked in. Separate concept that cleaning;

Correct. And this is why I reject this patch: I use exactly this mechanism to verify that "make mrproper" really cleans up everything it is expected to clean.

just like the .gitignore for .o, System.map, etc, at the top level. (Kumar's posted PATCH a few days ago.)

...which I will probably reject for the very same reason, too.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk