Fix and clean top .gitignore

Removed vmlinux* rule because it matches too many useful files, replacing
it with rules matching filetype by filename (e.g. *.gz). Also unignored
.mailmap from the top directory. Added a comment telling the user how to
check for tracked files being ignored.

Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu 2008-06-26 10:54:34 +03:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent db6c24fdf1
commit f72e9df0e0

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.gitignore vendored
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@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
# subdirectories here. Add them in the ".gitignore" file
# in that subdirectory instead.
#
# NOTE! Please use 'git-ls-files -i --exclude-standard'
# command after changing this file, to see if there are
# any tracked files which get ignored after the change.
#
# Normal rules
#
.*
@ -18,19 +22,21 @@
*.lst
*.symtypes
*.order
*.elf
*.bin
*.gz
#
# Top-level generic files
#
tags
TAGS
vmlinux*
!vmlinux.lds.S
!vmlinux.lds.h
vmlinux
System.map
Module.markers
Module.symvers
!.gitignore
!.mailmap
#
# Generated include files