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

[David Greene via llvm-dev]

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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