Re: [PATCH RFC] tools/nolibc: Add gitignore to avoid git complaints about sysroot

[Ammar Faizi]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 04:47:07PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Testing of nolibc can produce a tools/include/nolibc/sysroot file, which
> is not known to git.  Because it is automatically generated, there is no
> reason for it to be known to git.  Therefore, add a .gitignore to remove
> it from git's field of view.

Yeah, I hit the same "git status" complaint and have a pending patch
for that too:

https://github.com/ammarfaizi2/linux-block/commit/89bfe86a03c173863de12.patch

^ I'll drop this one.

> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> diff --git a/tools/include/nolibc/.gitignore b/tools/include/nolibc/.gitignore
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000000..dea22eaaed2ba
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/include/nolibc/.gitignore
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +sysroot

Small nit about the naming, not so much important, but the common
pattern for directory has a trailing slash. So, I would write
"sysroot/".

".gitignore" and "tools/testing/selftests/.gitignore" do that too :-)

Reviewed-by: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

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Ammar Faizi