[libcamera-devel] [PATCH] gitignore: Ignore all build directories

[Kieran Bingham]

On 04/06/2020 10:07, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Kieran,
> 
> Thank you for the patch.
> 
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 09:49:08AM +0100, Kieran Bingham wrote:
>> It can be common to have multiple build directories with different
>> configurations. Ignore them all.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham at ideasonboard.com>
>> ---
>>  .gitignore | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
>> index f989dee3bcb0..aecf971d30aa 100644
>> --- a/.gitignore
>> +++ b/.gitignore
>> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>>  __pycache__/
>> -build/
>> +*build*/
> 
> That's a bit of a too generic pattern, we could later have a directory
> with build in its name.
> 
> I personally have a single build/ directory directly at the root of the
> source tree, and create subdirectories there for different builds. All
> it requires is 'meson setup ../..' instead of 'meson setup ..' (and it
> works fine with the the run-from-build-dir support we have). Could that
> be a solution you would consider instead of this patch ?


how about ./*build*/ to only match on the root then.


>>  patches/
>>  *.patch
>>  *.pyc
> 

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Regards
--
Kieran