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

[Richard Henderson]

On 4/13/20 9:29 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.

Not a fan.  Why do we encourage putting the build directory in tree anyway?
IMO any out-of-tree build really should be OUT of tree.

My build directories are always siblings of the source directory in the parent
directory.


r~