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    bpftool: exclude bash-completion/bpftool from .gitignore pattern · 16e03948
    Masahiro Yamada authored
    [ Upstream commit a7d00671 ]
    
    tools/bpf/bpftool/.gitignore has the "bpftool" pattern, which is
    intended to ignore the following build artifact:
    
      tools/bpf/bpftool/bpftool
    
    However, the .gitignore entry is effective not only for the current
    directory, but also for any sub-directories.
    
    So, from the point of .gitignore grammar, the following check-in file
    is also considered to be ignored:
    
      tools/bpf/bpftool/bash-completion/bpftool
    
    As the manual gitignore(5) says "Files already tracked by Git are not
    affected", this is not a problem as far as Git is concerned.
    
    However, Git is not the only program that parses .gitignore because
    .gitignore is useful to distinguish build artifacts from source files.
    
    For example, tar(1) supports the --exclude-vcs-ignore option. As of
    writing, this option does not work perfectly, but it intends to create
    a tarball excluding files specified by .gitignore.
    
    So, I believe it is better to fix this issue.
    
    You can fix it by prefixing the pattern with a slash; the leading slash
    means the specified pattern is relative to the current directory.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarQuentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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