Re: [PATCH v4] selftests: tpm2: create a dedicated .gitignore

["Jarkko Sakkinen" <jarkko@kernel.org>]

On Sun Jan 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM EET, Khaled Elnaggar wrote:
> The tpm2 selftests produce two logs: SpaceTest.log and
> AsyncTest.log. Only SpaceTest.log was listed in selftests/.gitignore,
> while AsyncTest.log remained untracked.
>
> This change creates a dedicated .gitignore in the tpm2/ directory to
> manage these entries, keeping tpm2-specific patterns isolated from
> parent .gitignore.
>
> Signed-off-by: Khaled Elnaggar <khaledelnaggarlinux@gmail.com>
> ---
> Oh no, I realized there was a mistake in v3. I wrote tpm2/*.log in the
> tpm2/.gitignore file, which is unnecessary since tpm2/.gitignore is
> already scoped to the tpm2 directory.
> All entries are automatically relative to the tpm2 directory.
>
> I’ve fixed it by removing the redundant tpm2/ prefix from the entries
> in tpm2/.gitignore.
>
> Apologies for not catching this earlier, I tested it after submitting
> the patch because I was confident v2 was correct, but the issue was
> introduced in v3.
>
> Thanks,
> Khaled
>
> Changes:
> v4: Correct the mistake in v3
> v3: Improve commit message (and introduce a mistake)
> v2: Created a dedicated .gitignore
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/20250116085929.313677-1-eng.khaled.elnaggar@gmail.com
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/.gitignore      | 1 -
>  tools/testing/selftests/tpm2/.gitignore | 4 ++++
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/tpm2/.gitignore
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/.gitignore b/tools/testing/selftests/.gitignore
> index cb24124ac5b9..674aaa02e396 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/.gitignore
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/.gitignore
> @@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ gpiogpio-hammer
>  gpioinclude/
>  gpiolsgpio
>  kselftest_install/
> -tpm2/SpaceTest.log
>
>  # Python bytecode and cache
>  __pycache__/
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/tpm2/.gitignore b/tools/testing/selftests/tpm2/.gitignore
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..910bbdbb336a
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/tpm2/.gitignore
> @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> +AsyncTest.log
> +SpaceTest.log
> +
> --
> 2.45.2

Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>

BR, Jarkko