Re: [PATCH] tools/power/acpi: exclude tools/* from .gitignore pattern

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Monday, April 29, 2019 4:45:06 PM CEST Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> tools/power/acpi/.gitignore has the following entries:
> 
>   acpidbg
>   acpidump
>   ec
> 
> They are intended to ignore the following build artifacts:
> 
>   tools/power/acpi/acpidbg
>   tools/power/acpi/acpidump
>   tools/power/acpi/ec
> 
> However, those .gitignore entries are effective not only for the
> current directory, but also for any sub-directories.
> 
> So, the following directories are also considered to be ignored:
> 
>   tools/power/acpi/tools/acpidbg
>   tools/power/acpi/tools/acpidump
>   tools/power/acpi/tools/ec
> 
> They are obviously version-controlled, so should be excluded from the
> .gitignore patterns.
> 
> You can fix it by prefixing the patterns with '/', which means they
> are only effective in the current directory.
> 
> I also prefixed the "include" consistently. IMHO, '/' prefixing is
> safer when you intend to ignore specific files or directories.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
>  tools/power/acpi/.gitignore | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/power/acpi/.gitignore b/tools/power/acpi/.gitignore
> index cba3d99..f698a0e 100644
> --- a/tools/power/acpi/.gitignore
> +++ b/tools/power/acpi/.gitignore
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -acpidbg
> -acpidump
> -ec
> -include
> +/acpidbg
> +/acpidump
> +/ec
> +/include/
> 

Applied, thanks!