Re: [PATCH] gitignore: ignore /build

[Jonas Rebmann <jre@pengutronix.de>]

Hi Sascha,

On 2025-10-20 11:44, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2025 at 12:22:13PM +0200, Jonas Rebmann wrote:
>> Documentation such as Documentation/boards/kvx.rst and tooling such as
>> conftest.py suggests /build is a good choice for build output directory.
>>
>> Therefore, include it in .gitignore.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jonas Rebmann <jre@pengutronix.de>
>> ---
>>   .gitignore | 1 +
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
>> index 98bb4dac89..32d54b8fbe 100644
>> --- a/.gitignore
>> +++ b/.gitignore
>> @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ policy-list
>>   /TAGS
>>   /barebox*
>>   /System.map
>> +/build
> 
> I have nothing against adding this here. I just wondered why my build
> directories don't show up in git status and realized the barebox
> toplevel Makefile already creates a .gitignore file in the build
> directory:
> 
> 	{ echo "# this is build directory, ignore it"; echo "*"; } > .gitignore
> 
> Any idea why this doesn't happen in your case?

Oh, I was not aware of this.

In my case, "build" is a symlink to outside the barebox sourcetree. The
build/.gitignore is created with this content but it isn't respected by
git because it isn't in the sourcetree. This is also why I added
'/build' to .gitignore and not '/build/': To also ignore it when it's a
symlink.

Regards,
Jonas

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