[libcamera-devel] [RFC v3 3/5] gitignore: add .cache

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hi Tomi,

Thank you for the patch.

On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 11:29:04AM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> clangd produces a .cache directory. Add it to .gitignore.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen at ideasonboard.com>
> ---
>  .gitignore | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
> index d3d73615..cca829fa 100644
> --- a/.gitignore
> +++ b/.gitignore
> @@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ build/
>  patches/
>  *.patch
>  *.pyc
> +.cache

If this is a directory,

.cache/

could be better. Is the directory created at the top level only, or are
there multiple directories through the source tree ? In the first case,
/.cache/ could also be a better match (I'll submit a patch to turn
build/ and patches/ into /build/ and /patches/).

I'm not thrilled about adding ignore patterns related to third-party
tools, but I'm not opposed to it either. I however wonder if this use
case wouldn't be better supported by a /.cache/ pattern in
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore though, as that would allow you to use
clangd in all projects without adding a patch similar to this in all of
them. What do you think ?

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart