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From: Valters Jansons <valter.jansons@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] debian: Add all temporary files to Gitignore
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:48:12 +0300
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On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 4:10 PM Michael Tremer
<michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
> What is /*/ for? Why would we ignore any directory that is created in the r=
oot directory.
>
> It feels like a bit much to me.

As this is debian/.gitignore, then as a result all directories created
in debian/ get ignored. From gitignore(5): "These patterns match
relative to the location of the .gitignore file."

The added exceptions to that are debian/patches/, debian/source/ and
debian/tests/ as described in the commit message.

This ensures that if a new package is added, it doesn't need to be
manually added to the Gitignore. Similarly, if a package is removed,
then it doesn't need to be removed from the Gitignore either.

--Valters

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