Re: [PATCH] cmake: ignore generated files

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 23, 2020, 20:38 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqft78i5zd.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.2009232224410.5061@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> All I want is for the CMake support to be easier to use, yet we go in the
> opposite direction: instead of allowing to use CMake under more
> circumstances (which actually *works*, we just don't have the appropriate

Not, "more", but what you are doing is to ensure it is used at only one single place, which is the top-level (and nowhere else, judging from the .gitignore additions).

And that is fine---if you were to add .gitignore entries, you cannot
leave it up to the end-users where the build happens.
  
So, let's not pretend that you are allowing "more circumstances".
Forcing a single choice to make things predictable is fine, but
let's explain it as such, so that people won't be confused into
thinking that they can follow their experiences gained from using
CMake in other projects that lets them build in a separate
directory.  The other things in our project, including the
patterns added to .gitignore with the patch in question, are not set
up to allow that.