Re: dontdiff for 2.6.0-test4

[Jeff Garzik]

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 04:39:58PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> > > I have updated dontdiff in the usual place:
> > >  http://www.moses.uklinux.net/patches/dontdiff
> > > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> >
> > Btw, what about putting this somewhere in the kernel tree?
>
>
> I do not like dontdiff to be part of the kernel tree.
> What is included in dontdiff is redundant information already known
> by kbuild. Effectively dontdiff should not list any files that would
> not be removed during a "make mrproper".


This is not exactly true.

dontdiff must know about many things that 'make mrproper' need not care 
about:

	files with ".bak" suffix
	files with "~" suffix
	BitKeeper, CVS, RCS, SCCS directories

etc.

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