Re: [PATCH] .gitignore: include common build sub-directories

[Alex Bennée]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> On 4/13/20 11:29 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> As out-of-tree builds become more common (or rather building in a
>> subdir) we can add a lot of load to "git ls-files" as it hunts down
>> sub-directories that are irrelevant to the source tree. This is
>> especially annoying if you have a prompt that attempts to summarise
>> the current git status on command completion.
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>   .gitignore | 2 ++
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>> diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
>> index 0c5af83aa74..7757dc08a08 100644
>> --- a/.gitignore
>> +++ b/.gitignore
>> @@ -141,6 +141,8 @@ cscope.*
>>   tags
>>   TAGS
>>   docker-src.*
>> +build
>> +builds
>
> Would 'build-*' be worth adding as well?

Sure - I'll add it to v2.

>
> The idea makes sense to me (as I've already done the same in my
> ./git/info/exclude locally),
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>


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Alex Bennée