Re: [PATCH] gitignore: ignore /build

[Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>]

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?

Sascha

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