Re: [PULL 05/24] Simplify the .gitignore file

[Thomas Huth]

On 18/09/2020 19.33, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 12:47, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Now that we always do out-of-tree builds (and the in-tree builds are
>> faked via a "build" directory), we can simplify out .gitignore file
>> quite a bit.
>>
>> Message-Id: <20200909080305.258961-1-thuth@redhat.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  .gitignore | 152 -----------------------------------------------------
>>  1 file changed, 152 deletions(-)
> 
> This change removed .pyc files from the set of things we
> ignore:
> 
>> -*.pyc
> 
> But the meson build still runs python scripts which live in
> the source tree, which means python still dumps its bytecode
> files in the source tree too, and they appear in 'git status' now:
> 
> Untracked files:
>   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
> 
>         docs/sphinx/__pycache__/
>         scripts/qapi/__pycache__/
>         scripts/tracetool/__pycache__/
>         scripts/tracetool/backend/__pycache__/
>         scripts/tracetool/format/__pycache__/
> 
> So I think we should put *.pyc back into .gitignore.

Ooops, you're right. I'll send a patch.

 Thomas