Re: [PATCH] Simplify the .gitignore file

[Eric Blake]

On 9/7/20 12:42 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> Now that we always do out-of-tree builds (and the in-tree builds are
> faked via a "build" directory), we can simplify out .gitignore file

s/out/our/

> quite a bit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
>   .gitignore | 158 -----------------------------------------------------
>   1 file changed, 158 deletions(-)

I like the idea.  As Phillipe pointed out, there are still a few files 
that may be created by merely running './configure' or common editor 
droppings or workflow setups that are still worth ignoring, but as most 
of these truly no longer appear during a fresh checkout, it makes sense 
to clean it up.

Someone who still wants to use 'fake in-tree' builds and creates 
symlinks for themselves will no longer have those symlinks ignored by 
this pruned file, but can edit their own .git/info/exclude file to match 
their preferences.

> diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
> index 4ccb9ed975..bb916594eb 100644
> --- a/.gitignore
> +++ b/.gitignore
> @@ -1,165 +1,7 @@
>   /GNUmakefile
>   /build/

Our 'fake in-tree' build uses just 'build', but ignoring '/build*/' 
might be wiser to automatically ignore all other variations on the theme 
of a subdirectory per build.

--
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org