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Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 13:07:41 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: dontdiff for 2.6.0-test4
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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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