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

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

On 4/13/20 4:32 PM, Alex Bennée wrote:
> 
> Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> writes:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> Sure - I'll add it to v2.

Or even consolidate it into a single pattern: build* (which would allow 
'build', 'builds', 'build1', 'build23', 'build-fedora', 'build-bug1234', 
...)

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