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Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:23:37 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitignore: add *.bz2 and *.cpio to top-level; clean up
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Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> I would prefer to have *.gz and *.lzma pushed out to the
> directories where it matters.
> There global ignore rules will bite us one day.
> 
> So I did not apply neither this nor Peter's original patch.
> 

I think that's the wrong answer, unless we somehow end up with
compressed files in the source.  At the moment, a *.gz file in the
source tree is much more likely to be a file in use by the developer.

	-hpa

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