[llvm-dev] [RFC] change .gitignore for monorepo

[Philip Reames via llvm-dev]

Also a -1 from me.

On 7/17/19 10:25 AM, David Greene via llvm-dev wrote:
> I would not want to see this.  We have directories added to the top
> level in our local fork of the monorepo and to have them suddenly
> ignored by git would be surprising.  Yes, we could whitelist what we've
> added but we would not recognize the problem until we tried to commit a
> change from those directories, which happens infrequently.  I can
> imagine it would take some time to realize what is going on.
>
>                          -David
>
> "Zakharin, Vyacheslav P via llvm-dev" <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>   
>>
>> My team is using some non-llvm projects along with llvm-project monorepo.  The projects are checked out to the top level of llvm-project, and ‘git status’ would
>> complain about them unless we add them to .gitignore.  We do not really want to change llorg’s .gitignore on our side, so may we propose changing llorg’s
>> .gitignore to ignore all top-level files/directories that are not explicitly listed?  Something along the lines:
>>
>> /*
>>
>> !/clang
>>
>> !/clang-tools-extra
>>
>> !/compiler-rt
>>
>> …
>>
>>   
>>
>> This will require updating .gitignore every time a new top-level entry is added into llvm-project monorepo, which should not be a big deal.  Please let me know if I
>> can proceed with a review request.
>>
>>   
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Slava
>>
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