Re: [PATCH] Add t/helper/test-write-cache to .gitignore

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 20, 2017, 18:47 UTC
Message-ID: <20170920184753.GC27425@aiede.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170828210939.GA71562@google.com>

Brandon Williams wrote:

> On 08/28, Jonathan Tan wrote:

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>> This new binary was introduced in commit 3921a0b ("perf: add test for
>> writing the index", 2017-08-21), but a .gitignore entry was not added
>> for it. Add that entry.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
>
> Looks good to me

Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
as well.

I wonder if we can automate this a little.  Some thoughts:

 A. We could include a test that all the binaries named in
    TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X are also named in t/helper/.gitignore.  That
    way tests would fail if this ever falls out of date again.

 B. Even better would be if we could have /t/helper/test-* in
    .gitignore.  E.g. if we rename test-*.c to *.c (e.g.
    t/helper/ctype.c instead of t/helper/test-ctype.c), then the test
    helper source file names would be easier to type and maintaining
    this .gitignore would become a problem of the past.

What do you think? Jonathan