Re: [PATCH v7 2/4] gitignore: ignore a bit more

[Thomas Huth]

On 13/10/2020 10.53, 罗勇刚(Yonggang Luo) wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 4:38 PM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com
> <mailto:philmd@redhat.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/13/20 1:37 AM, Yonggang Luo wrote:
>> > Enable the creating multiple build directory at the source root.
>> > Ignore /meson/ and /roms/ for better search experience.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Yonggang Luo <luoyonggang@gmail.com
> <mailto:luoyonggang@gmail.com>>
>> > ---
>> >   .gitignore | 4 +++-
>> >   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
>> > index b32bca1315..f78ee9f297 100644
>> > --- a/.gitignore
>> > +++ b/.gitignore
>> > @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>> >   /GNUmakefile
>> > -/build/
>> > +/build*/

The naming of your private build directories is IMHO something that should
not be part of the public .gitignore file. I think you can use your
~/.gitignore file for that.

>> >   *.pyc
>> >   .sdk
>> >   .stgit-*
>> > @@ -10,3 +10,5 @@ TAGS
>> >   *~
>> >   *.ast_raw
>> >   *.depend_raw
>> > +/meson/
>> > +/roms/**/*
>>
>> Why?
> As I said, help for searching tool ignore it, meson and roms are thirdparty
> packages.

Hmm, but "git status" should still show whether there are modifications in
the subdirectories, so IMHO this should not be ignored?

 Thomas