On Wed, 7 Oct 2026 at 10:52, Sasha Levin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2026 at 06:10:42PM +0200, Antheas Kapenekakis wrote: > >The kernel forces you to have a local version file, otherwise it adds > >a .test wart. At least on Fedora. So there is precedent for requiring > >the user to create a file to disable some default behavior. > > > >Similarly, you swap this series into a two parter. > > > >The first patch gitignores agents.md. > > > >The second patch adds a phony rule to the makefile that symlinks > >agents.md to the coding assistants rst or similar if it does not > >exist. People that do not want that, like me, touch that file. Not to > >the current readme, please. Be reasonable. Yes the coding assistants > >rst file is not ideal either but that can be fixed later. > > But then you would need to run make to "generate" the symlink, which would not > normally happen.
We would make the dependency part of a basic rule, so it runs whenever someone e.g., compiles a kernel. Yes a naked checkout would not have it, but after an initial make it would appear. Something like: AGENTS.md: ln -s Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst AGENTS.md basic-dependency: ... AGENTS.md This would cause the file to be created only if it does not exist. since : is empty afterwards, the rule only runs when AGENTS.md does not exist and does not replace any existing ones. Best, Antheas > -- > Thanks, > Sasha >
