tree 13b93e3f31ccade4612af5ebd9f73f639e5a0047
parent 5b13f841b37ffa72a66e6209914993f9c9d2287f
author Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> 1556718961 +0900
committer Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> 1558146541 +0900

sh: exclude vmlinux.scr from .gitignore pattern

arch/sh/boot/.gitignore has the pattern "vmlinux*"; this is effective
not only for the current directory, but also for any sub-directories.

So, from the point of .gitignore grammar, the following check-in files
are also considered to be ignored:

  arch/sh/boot/compressed/vmlinux.scr
  arch/sh/boot/romimage/vmlinux.scr

As the manual gitignore(5) says "Files already tracked by Git are not
affected", this is not a problem as far as Git is concerned.

However, Git is not the only program that parses .gitignore because
.gitignore is useful to distinguish build artifacts from source files.

For example, tar(1) supports the --exclude-vcs-ignore option. As of
writing, this option does not work perfectly, but it intends to create
a tarball excluding files specified by .gitignore.

So, I believe it is better to fix this issue.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>