Re: [RFC/PoC 2/5] Documentation Bundles: ignore artifact files from creating doc bundles

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 3, 2022, 09:12 UTC
Message-ID: <221103.86zgd81jtm.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20221102224843.2104-3-philipoakley@iee.email>

On Wed, Nov 02 2022, Philip Oakley wrote:

> The Git documentation contains many examples that can be prepared as
> repository bundles for users to clone and explore without any language
> or translation confusions between the written word and intended code.

I just find this commit entirely confusing, we're adding .gitignore entries, but nothing generates these yet (but I'll read on). All to describe some seeming future feature...

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> There are also a large number of example repositories in the t/ test
> system can can also be exposed to users to highlight the critical
> distinctions tested therein.
>
> These documentation bundles will be prepared ar part of the test system.

s/ar/as/

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> Start by ignoring those parts which will be considered build artifacts,
> the GIT-BUNDLE-DIR, and the `.bndl` bundle files themselves.
>
> The artifacts themselves will later be manipulated by the `make` elements
> of the documentation system.
>
> Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.email>
> ---
>  .gitignore | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
> index 6ded10067a..b96a4ce5df 100644
> --- a/.gitignore
> +++ b/.gitignore
> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
>  /fuzz-pack-headers
>  /fuzz-pack-idx
>  /GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS
> +/GIT-BUNDLE-DIR
>  /GIT-CFLAGS
>  /GIT-LDFLAGS
>  /GIT-PREFIX
> @@ -250,3 +251,4 @@ Release/
>  *.dSYM
>  /contrib/buildsystems/out
>  CMakeSettings.json
> +*.bndl

We've been putting quite a few things in .build/ recently, so whatever this is, if you put it in .build/test-bundles/ or whatever you don't need to write "clean" rules for it, or add this ignore entry.