From: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 21:06:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t/helper: ignore everything but sources
Message-ID: <20171212210623.GV3693@zaya.teonanacatl.net>
In-Reply-To: <20171212205606.75581-1-sbeller@google.com>

Hi Stefan,

Stefan Beller wrote:
>> If we ignore everything but resurrect *.[ch] with negative exclude
>> rules, can we do the same without moving things around?
> 
> Yes, there is also one lonely shell script in there, which also needs
> exclusion.

There aren't currently any .h files, but I suppose it doesn't hurt to
include that pattern to be safer for the future.

> +*
> +!.sh
> +!.[ch]

The ! patterns are missing a '*'.  I think it should be:

*
!*.[ch]
!*.sh

Does it make sense to also include !.gitignore as well?
It's already committed, so it's not ignored.  But perhaps
having it listed will save someone from getting their repo
into a state where local changes to .gitignore aren't picked
up (I know that's a bit of a stretch).

-- 
Todd
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