Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> writes: > On 4/13/20 4:32 PM, Alex Bennée wrote: >> >> Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> writes: >> >>> On 4/13/20 11:29 AM, Alex Bennée wrote: >>>> As out-of-tree builds become more common (or rather building in a >>>> subdir) we can add a lot of load to "git ls-files" as it hunts down >>>> sub-directories that are irrelevant to the source tree. This is >>>> especially annoying if you have a prompt that attempts to summarise >>>> the current git status on command completion. >>>> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> >>>> --- >>>> .gitignore | 2 ++ >>>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) >>>> diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore >>>> index 0c5af83aa74..7757dc08a08 100644 >>>> --- a/.gitignore >>>> +++ b/.gitignore >>>> @@ -141,6 +141,8 @@ cscope.* >>>> tags >>>> TAGS >>>> docker-src.* >>>> +build >>>> +builds >>> >>> Would 'build-*' be worth adding as well? >> >> Sure - I'll add it to v2. > > Or even consolidate it into a single pattern: build* (which would > allow 'build', 'builds', 'build1', 'build23', 'build-fedora', > 'build-bug1234', ...)
The looser the pattern, the higher the risk of unwanted matches. Would be less of an issue if we had a cleaner source root directory.
