On Monday, 11 May 2026 11:00:18 Pacific Daylight Time Christian Ehrlicher via Development wrote: > There is a .gitignore file in nearly every subdirectoy of > qtbase/tests/auto - they were added in qt4 times afaics. Do we still > need them? We don't support in-source builds anymore so from my pov they > are pretty useless and just slow down git.
Agreed. They existed because of in-source builds, because back in Qt 4 many tests actually had to be run from the source dir. I ended up fixing most of them that made sense still in the qmake-using days, but the final clean up only happened for 6.0 by the CMake-porting team. And, of course, the porting to some devices (Android, iOS) made quite a few more changes. I support removing them all. If people notice running tests leave artefacts behind in the source dir, please fix the test instead of re-adding .gitignores. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Principal Engineer - Intel DCG - Platform & Sys. Eng.
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