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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:30:27 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitignore: add *.bz2 and *.cpio to top-level; clean up
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Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> Convinced with respect to the *.gz *.bz2 *.lzma or *.cpio extensions.
> But I will continue to be reluctant to adding global entries,
> as I have been beated from time to time by something
> that was ignored but should not have been so.
> 

In general, in the particular case of the Linux kernel tree, I think
that it's generally safe to add binary file types to the top level: we
have *extremely* few binary files in the tree, and those are clearly
special cases.

Text files or ambiguous types is another matter.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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