[Buildroot] [PATCH] .gitignore: ignore output*

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 21-10-17 16:04, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Sat, 21 Oct 2017 10:01:08 -0400, Gaël PORTAY wrote:
>> During development, it is often practical to have many output
>> directories.  The output directory is easily specified with O=<output>
>> though is it useful to have a convention of 'output...' e.g.
>> "output-rpi", "output-rpi2", and "output-rpi3-64".
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gaël PORTAY <gael.portay at savoirfairelinux.com>
>> ---
>>  .gitignore | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
>> index bb02d9f572..ec5768d053 100644
>> --- a/.gitignore
>> +++ b/.gitignore
>> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>> -/output
>> +/output*
> 
> Not sure this is a good idea, it kind of makes an assumption on how
> people would name their output directories.
> 
> If you're annoyed by your output directories, use make O=../output-rpi2
> instead of make O=output-rpi2, and that's it :-)

 You can also add /output* to .git/info/exclude (this is what I do).

 Regards,
 Arnout

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