Re: [PATCH 2/4] ci(gitlab,windows): preserve exclusions during dependency setup

[Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2026 at 12:12:11PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> 
> Creating .git/info/exclude as a file with `New-Item` and `-Force`
> truncates existing contents.
> 
> When install-dependencies.ps1 follows install-sdk.ps1, this discards
> the latter's /git-sdk exclusion and causes ci/lib.sh to reject SDK
> files as unignored build artifacts.

Okay, this confirms that it's indeed the plan to start calling this
script for MinGW builds, too.

> diff --git a/ci/install-dependencies.ps1 b/ci/install-dependencies.ps1
> index 8c68fb0cfc..f6868dc670 100755
> --- a/ci/install-dependencies.ps1
> +++ b/ci/install-dependencies.ps1
> @@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ $RustVersion = '1.96.0'
>  
>  New-Item -Path $DownloadDirectory -ItemType Directory -Force | Out-Null
>  New-Item -Path .git/info -ItemType Directory -Force | Out-Null
> -New-Item -Path .git/info/exclude -ItemType File -Force | Out-Null
> +if (-not (Test-Path .git/info/exclude)) {
> +    New-Item -Path .git/info/exclude -ItemType File | Out-Null
> +}
>  Add-Content -Path .git/info/exclude -Value "/$DownloadDirectory"

Makes sense.

Patrick