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Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:58:36 +0530
From: "Satyam Sharma" <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
To: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: Patches for REALLY TINY 386 kernels
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[ the off-topic zillion-ways-to-do-same-thing-in-*nix sub-thread ]

On 7/16/07, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> On Monday 16 July 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> > > Yeah. I was going for the general principle :)
> >
> > Even simpler to add --exclude-from=.gitignore to diff
> >
> Or build in a separate object directory, using the O=$my_objdir
> Kbuild option. That has a number of addition advantages, e.g.
> you can easily clean your object files using 'rm -rf $my_objdir'
> and if you grep -r the source, you don't find your search string
> in generated files.

Or just "cp -al" to create multiple trees at (almost) no disk cost
that won't interfere with each other in any way, and makes the
development process / generating patchsets trifle easier as well ...

Or best of all, just start using git if you can ...

... ok, back to work now.

Satyam