Re: [PATCH] Simplify the .gitignore file

[Markus Armbruster]

Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:

> On 07/09/2020 21.43, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> On 9/7/20 7:42 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
>>> quite a bit.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>>> ---
>>>  .gitignore | 158 -----------------------------------------------------
>>>  1 file changed, 158 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
>>> index 4ccb9ed975..bb916594eb 100644
>>> --- a/.gitignore
>>> +++ b/.gitignore
[...]
>>> -*.[1-9]
>>> -*.a
>>> -*.aux
>>> -*.cp
>>> -*.exe
>>> -*.msi
>>> -*.dll
>>> -*.so
>>> -*.fn
>>> -*.ky
>> 
>> Need to double-check where this come from.
>
> Looking at 0cb3fb1e30a7789881e18 and some other commits, it seems like
> these were once used for the qemu-doc PDF file generation. Should be ok
> to remove them now since we moved to Sphinx.

The move isn't complete, yet: "[PATCH v5 00/20] Convert QAPI doc
comments to generate rST instead of texinfo".

Regardless, formatting documentation should not litter the source tree.

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