From: Like Xu likexu@tencent.com
With thousands of commits going into mainline each development cycle, the metadata .git folder size is gradually expanding (1GB+), and for some developers (most likely testers) who don't care about the lengthy git-log, they just use git-archive to distribute a certain version of code (~210MB) and rebuild git repository from anywhere for further code changes, e.g.
$ git init && git add . -A
Then unfortunately, the file tracking metadata from the original git-repo using "git add -f" will also be lost, to the point where part of source files wrapped by git-archive may be accidentally cleaned up:
$ git clean -nxdf Would remove Documentation/devicetree/bindings/.yamllint Would remove drivers/clk/.kunitconfig Would remove drivers/gpu/drm/tests/.kunitconfig Would remove drivers/hid/.kunitconfig Would remove fs/ext4/.kunitconfig Would remove fs/fat/.kunitconfig Would remove kernel/kcsan/.kunitconfig Would remove lib/kunit/.kunitconfig Would remove mm/kfence/.kunitconfig Would remove tools/testing/selftests/arm64/tags/ Would remove tools/testing/selftests/kvm/.gitignore Would remove tools/testing/selftests/kvm/Makefile Would remove tools/testing/selftests/kvm/config Would remove tools/testing/selftests/kvm/settings
This asymmetry is very troubling to those users since finding out which files to track with "git add -f" clearly requires priori knowledge on various subsystems. The eradication of this little issue requires naturally making git-init aware of all .gitignore restrictions at different file tree hierarchies. Similar issues can be troubleshot with "git check-ignore -v" for any mistakenly cleaned files.
Signed-off-by: Like Xu likexu@tencent.com --- .gitignore | 2 ++ tools/testing/selftests/arm64/.gitignore | 2 ++ tools/testing/selftests/kvm/.gitignore | 4 ++++ 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/arm64/.gitignore
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 20dce5c3b9e0..fa39e98caee3 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -102,6 +102,8 @@ modules.order !.gitignore !.mailmap !.rustfmt.toml +!.yamllint +!.kunitconfig
# # Generated include files diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/.gitignore b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..135d709d2d65 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only +!tags diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/.gitignore b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/.gitignore index 6d9381d60172..96561c8e06e0 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/.gitignore +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/.gitignore @@ -5,3 +5,7 @@ !*.h !*.S !*.sh +!.gitignore +!Makefile +!settings +!config \ No newline at end of file