diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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-# git ls-files --others --exclude-from=.git/info/exclude
-# Lines that start with '#' are comments.
-# For a project mostly in C, the following would be a good set of
-# exclude patterns (uncomment them if you want to use them):
-# *.[oa]
-# *~
-*.o
-*.a
-*.d
-*.cmd
-*.pyc
-!arch/*/*/*/*.cmd
-*~
-cscope.*
-.dir
-outdir
-scripts/basic/fixdep
-scripts/gen_idt/gen_idt
-scripts/gen_offset_header/gen_offset_header
-scripts/kconfig/conf
-scripts/kconfig/mconf
-scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c
-scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c
-scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c
-doc/_build
-xml
-html/
-doc/latex/
-sanity-out/
-scripts/grub
-doc/reference/kconfig/CONFIG_*
-tags
-*_