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From:   Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To:     "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Cc:     <git@vger.kernel.org>, Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitignore: ignore clangd .cache directory
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Date:   Fri, 04 Aug 2023 10:56:31 -0700
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"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

> From: "brian m. carlson" <bk2204@github.com>
>
> In at least some versions of clangd, including version 15 in Ubuntu
> 23.04, a directory, .cache, is written in the root of the repository
> with index information about the files in the repository.  Since clangd
> is the most common language server protocol (LSP) implementation for C,
> and we already support it using the GENERATE_COMPILATION_DATABASE flags
> to make it functional, it's likely many users are using or will want to
> use it.
>
> As a result, ignore the ".cache" directory to help avoid users
> accidentally committing the data.

Thanks.  Let's fork from maint and queue it directly on 'next', and
fast track it to the upcoming release.

> Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <bk2204@github.com>
> ---
>  .gitignore | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
> index e875c59054..5e56e471b3 100644
> --- a/.gitignore
> +++ b/.gitignore
> @@ -222,6 +222,7 @@
>  /TAGS
>  /cscope*
>  /compile_commands.json
> +/.cache/
>  *.hcc
>  *.obj
>  *.lib