On 12.07.2022 16:41, Bertrand Marquis wrote:
> ...because there are some scripts in automation corresponding to the
> entry (build-test.sh and build-each-commit.sh)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bertrand Marquis <[email protected]>

While it seems odd to have this simple a patch sit un-acked for this long,
it looks like I'm not the only one uncomfortable ack-ing it without knowing
why the entry was there. Old .hgignore history only tells me that at some
point build* was changed to build-*. This recent mail from Andrew
(https://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2022-08/msg01043.html)
matches my vague recollection of build-* being used as sub-trees for
building stuff when out-of-tree builds are possible, yet people also don't
want to build in an entirely separate tree.

Hence as a compromise between keeping the status quo and deleting the
entry, could we go with changing it to build-*/ ?

Jan

> --- a/.gitignore
> +++ b/.gitignore
> @@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ config.cache
>  config/Toplevel.mk
>  config/Paths.mk
>  
> -build-*
>  dist/*
>  docs/tmp.*
>  docs/html/


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