Re: [PATCH] .gitignore: include common build sub-directories

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

On 4/13/20 11:29 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
> As out-of-tree builds become more common (or rather building in a
> subdir) we can add a lot of load to "git ls-files" as it hunts down
> sub-directories that are irrelevant to the source tree. This is
> especially annoying if you have a prompt that attempts to summarise
> the current git status on command completion.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> ---
>   .gitignore | 2 ++
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
> index 0c5af83aa74..7757dc08a08 100644
> --- a/.gitignore
> +++ b/.gitignore
> @@ -141,6 +141,8 @@ cscope.*
>   tags
>   TAGS
>   docker-src.*
> +build
> +builds

Would 'build-*' be worth adding as well?

The idea makes sense to me (as I've already done the same in my 
./git/info/exclude locally),
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>

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