From 6db823cf4b44f235b5e1da8ec1fe3c3cd63647fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:30:23 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fix up .gitignore for top-level file patterns

Some of the gitignore file patters were explicitly meant to be only for
the top level, but weren't marked that way, so they would trigger
recursively in subdirectories too.  Normally that was harmless, but at
least "linux" happened to trigger elsewhere too. Fix it up.

And other patterns in that section weren't necessarily top-level at all.

Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 .gitignore | 20 ++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index efab0ebec859..a2939fc10b22 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -34,14 +34,18 @@ modules.builtin
 #
 # Top-level generic files
 #
-tags
-TAGS
-linux
-vmlinux
-vmlinuz
-System.map
-Module.markers
-Module.symvers
+/tags
+/TAGS
+/linux
+/vmlinux
+/vmlinuz
+/System.map
+/Module.markers
+/Module.symvers
+
+#
+# git files that we don't want to ignore even it they are dot-files
+#
 !.gitignore
 !.mailmap