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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 4/22/26 21:08, pratmal@google.com wrote: > (Resending to correct David's email address. Apologies for the noise!) > Heh, no worries, I didn't even notice. As long as you CC one of the mailing lists I'm subscribed to, even mails to my old RH address will still hit my inbox. > On 4/22/26 18:04, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote: >> On 4/21/26 20:30, pratmal@google.com wrote: >>> From: Pratyush Mallick >>> >>> The current .gitignore hardcodes each generated test binary by name, >>> requiring updates every time a new test is added. >>> >>> Switch to the patten-matching approach similar to KVM:selftests. >>> Ignore everything by default and then allow source extensions (.c, .h, .sh) >>> and tracked non-source files. >> That looks pretty nice. Any reason for the RFC? (iow, are you unsure about some >> side-effects?) > > Exactly that. I verified that the build works fine, however I sent it > as an RFC just to be cautious. I wanted to get some feedback in case this > might introduce some unwanted behavior that I'm not aware of. :) After taking a peek at the KVM one, I think what you propose makes perfect sense. I do wonder, whether we want to make our lives easier and rename "local_config.h" to something like "local_config.h_gen", so we don't need the "re-ignore" part. -- Cheers, David