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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Alexander Shiyan <shc_work@mail.ru>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Makefile: Create empty <config.h> if this header file is not needed by board
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:24:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130310232442.GX1906@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1362927660.933817593@f386.i.mail.ru>

On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 07:01:00PM +0400, Alexander Shiyan wrote:
> > > > Patch creates empty <config.h> if this header is not needed by board.
> > > > This will allow to remove many empty config.h files from boards.
> > 
> > How does git incorporate with this? I think git just ignores empty files
> > like these, right?
> 
> When I say "empty" here, I mean about not zeroed files, but about
> files without any content. Now we have 50 config.h files like this.

My question aimed in the direction whether we end up with empty files
in git because people accidently add these now generated files.

I think the goal should be to get rid of the config.h files entirely.
This patch (or better: the removal of the empty files) could be a good
start to see what's left.

Sascha

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-10 23:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-06 18:30 Alexander Shiyan
2013-03-10 11:08 ` Alexander Shiyan
2013-03-10 14:56   ` Sascha Hauer
2013-03-10 15:01     ` Re[2]: " Alexander Shiyan
2013-03-10 23:24       ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2013-03-11 16:10         ` Alexander Shiyan

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