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

[Eric Blake]

On 4/13/20 4:32 PM, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 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.

Or even consolidate it into a single pattern: build* (which would allow 
'build', 'builds', 'build1', 'build23', 'build-fedora', 'build-bug1234', 
...)

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