[OE-core] [PATCH] .gitignore: add /bitbake to the ignore list for external distributions

[Koen Kooi]

Op 9 mei 2012, om 16:45 heeft Jason Wessel het volgende geschreven:

> On 05/09/2012 09:21 AM, Phil Blundell wrote:
>> On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 08:46 -0500, Jason Wessel wrote:
>>> External distributions based on the oe-core will typically include
>>> bitbake in the top level directory.  The idea is to make it easy
>>> for external distributions to easily assemble a distribution
>>> with a pristine version of oe-core, add avoid the git untracked messages:
>> 
>> Presumably any non-trivial external distribution is going to include
>> other metadata as well, in which case they're going to have to
>> edit .gitignore for themselves anyway.  So it doesn't really seem as
>> though having bitbake be mentioned there in oe-core buys much.
>> 
>> On the other hand, actually moving bitbake inside the oe-core repository
>> seems like an idea which might have some merit.  It's not obvious that
>> having it in its own tree really achieves anything other than making
>> release engineering slightly more difficult.
> 
> 
> It appeared to me that the bitbake was maintained by an entirely different group of people

Yes, Chris Larson and Richard Purdie. Those names sound familiar :)