Restructure .gitignore files #4707
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This line is repeated in many places? Can you remove?
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It's technically not necessary since the .gitignore file is itself added. I added it in all the files because I assume in the future, if someone adds a new directory they will use one of the existing .gitignore files as a template. However, If the file doesn't un-ignore itself, it will not show up in their list of modified files, so it will not get added to their commit and may get overlooked. They would need to make sure to explicitly add the new .gitignore file.
I can simply remove them all if you prefer.
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Why you need unignore? Who ignore it at first place?
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The first line, * ignores everything, then we un-ignore the Makefile here.
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Why ignore everything? That will make things complex.
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Because we only want to commit the Makefile. We don't care about the generated files, and if the generated files change, we will need to update this. This way, we never need to update it unless we need to add any files.
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Merge them into one line rule?
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As with the above, these are inverse ignore rules. We ignore all, then un-ignore the files we want to keep. Otherwise, there would be more lines :)
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debian/* make things complex. Could you just ignore what you want to ignore?
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I disagree. There are more files we want to ignore than the number we want to commit.
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The first line, * ignores everything, then we un-ignore the Makefile and patch directory here.
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Add .gitignore files in each subdirectory of src/, so as to reduce the size of the .gitignore file in the project root, and also make it easier to maintain (i.e., if a directory in src/ is removed, there will not be outdated entries in the root .gitignore file.
Also add missing .gitignore entries and remove outdated entries and duplicates.