From 330fd5733c64832d8b1740f8f1a4565f4ef63f38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Widman Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 22:59:10 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add /*build*/ to .gitignore MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit A common pattern is to build the source artifacts within a *build* dir. For example, the wiki instructions for [building `wireshark` on `macOS` specify to create a `./build` directory](https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/wikis/BuildingAndInstalling#macos): ``` mkdir build && cd build && cmake ../ && make ``` So this commit adds this directory to `.gitignore` to prevent accidentally committing build artifacts. The specific format `/*build*/` protects against the following: 1. The leading slash makes sure only top-level directories that match this pattern are ignored. 2. The trailing slash makes sure that only directories (and not files) are ignored. 3. The wildcards catch all the various variations on `build` folder name that are used... --- .gitignore | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 04a3e9ecde..3d7e989d29 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ wireshark-tap-register.c # CMake # ################## -cmake-build-*/ +/*build*/ CMakeCache.txt CMakeFiles CMakeLists.txt.user*