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Re: gitignore for pkg-kernel?



On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 02:03 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 20:05 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > I mostly use git svn to do Debian kernel stuff. One annoyance with this
> > is that when you want to add/commit a change under /debian/ you have to
> > use -f because the file is in .gitignore (the one which comes from the
> > upstream kernel source).
> > 
> > The patch below removes /debian/ from the upstream .gitignore and also
> > adds some further overrides for the debian/patches dir. I could probably
> > achieve this locally via .git/info/excludes but I figure I'm not the
> > only one using git svn so perhaps it is worth having in tree? It would
> > also be correct if/when we eventually switch to git ourselves.
> 
> Seems reasonable.

Thanks, I've committed with the addition of the DEP-3 header and quilt
refresh.

> This RCS-style file header is so ugly... if you put this in .quiltrc:
>     QUILT_REFRESH_ARGS="--no-timestamps --no-index -p ab"
> you'll get nice simple file headers.

Top tip, thanks!

Ian.

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