Hi Jan, > On 18 Aug 2022, at 15:30, Jan Beulich <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
Thanks for reacting on this, I should have pinged in fact. > > Hence as a compromise between keeping the status quo and deleting the > entry, could we go with changing it to build-*/ ? I must admit that not knowing why it was there I could not suggest how to fix. This would work for the current issue so I am ok with that. Cheers Bertrand > > Jan > >> --- a/.gitignore >> +++ b/.gitignore >> @@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ config.cache >> config/Toplevel.mk >> config/Paths.mk >> >> -build-* >> dist/* >> docs/tmp.* >> docs/html/ >
