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

[James Y Knight via llvm-dev]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 12:45 PM Zakharin, Vyacheslav P via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hello,
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>
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> 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,
>

Why not? If you're using a modified llvm-project fork, what's the harm of
also modifying .gitignore?


> so may we propose changing llorg’s .gitignore to ignore all top-level
> files/directories that are not explicitly listed?  Something along the
> lines:
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> /*
>
> !/clang
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> !/clang-tools-extra
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> !/compiler-rt
>
> …
>
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> 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.
>

I'm still against this.
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