Re: [PATCH] gitignore: ignore /build

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

On Mon, Oct 20, 2025 at 02:36:08PM +0200, Jonas Rebmann wrote:
> 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.

Ah, ok, so the symlink is the problem. YOCTO uses a build symlink as
well when used with devtool modify --no-extract. With YOCTO we also get
oe-logs and oe-workdir symlinks, so maybe we should git-ignore these as
well.

Sascha

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