Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 08/11] add "test-int128" and "test-bitops" to .gitignore

[Markus Armbruster]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> On 08/21/2013 01:57 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>>>> I think we could consolidate everything in tests/.gitignore. But can we
>>>> do it as an incremental patch? It's a very small cosmetic thing to respin
>>>> the series and my pull request.
>>>
>>> Sure, it's not a bug.
>> 
>> Is it OK if I submit a patch moving the test-* entries over to
>> tests/.gitignore once Anthony applies this? (I'm offering because it's
>> not clear to me who's planning to do it.)
>
> Bikeshedding alert - I personally like having a single top-level
> .gitignore for everything.  We don't live in CVS days where you had to
> have per-directory ignores, and having one file is easier to maintain
> (in the future, it's easier to know WHICH .gitignore to add a new entry
> to if there is only ONE .gitignore).  I don't care enough to write the
> patch myself, nor to care if you end up keeping the split .gitignore,
> but if I did care, I'd be consolidating in the opposite direction (move
> tests/.gitignore to the toplevel).

One more thing you probably care about (I do): everything that is
ignored in a directory should be ignored in the same .gitignore.
Trivial if the is only one.