Re: [docs] [PATCH 1/4] doc: bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables: clarify BBMASK directory matching

["Antonin Godard" <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>]

Hi,

On Wed Feb 11, 2026 at 7:06 PM CET, Quentin Schulz via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> From: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
>
> BBMASK matches files in the directories matching the regex, and also in
> their respective subdirectories, so make that clear in the wording
> leading to the example.
>
> Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
> ---
>  doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst
> index 4b3b10d46..18bbd638d 100644
> --- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst
> +++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-ref-variables.rst
> @@ -1051,8 +1051,8 @@ overview of their function and contents.
>        documentation at http://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html.
>  
>        The following example uses a complete regular expression to tell
> -      BitBake to ignore all recipe and recipe append files in the
> -      ``meta-ti/recipes-misc/`` directory::
> +      BitBake to ignore all recipe and recipe append files in
> +      ``meta-ti/recipes-misc/`` directories (and their subdirectories)::

If I follow: this will mask multiple occurrences "meta-ti/recipes-misc/". How
could there be more than one in practice? How could this ever happen?

Wouldn't:

"""
The following example uses a complete regular expression to tell
BitBake to ignore all recipe and recipe append files in the
``meta-ti/recipes-misc/`` directory and its subdirectories::
"""

be less confusing?

Antonin