[PATCH] re-add cscope db files to .gitignore

[Michal Privoznik]

On 10/27/20 5:39 PM, Laine Stump wrote:
> Commit f7114e61db removed these lines as being "old and
> obsolete". cscope may be old, but it is still very much useful and
> used (i.e. *not* obsolete), and having the files show up as "Untracked
> files:" every time git status is run is annoying.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine at redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> I'm not sure why I didn't notice this omission until now, but a couple
> weeks ago it resulted in my accidentally committing my cscope.out and
> cscope.files to git (fortunately I noticed it before I posted the
> patch!)
> 
> It could be argued (as abologna did on IRC) that users should just add
> these to their private user-global .gitignore, but if that's the case,
> then the vim and emacs-related files should also be removed from
> libvirt's .gitignore (also suggested by abologna :-)).
> 
> However if you do that, then any time you checkout libvirt on some
> random new machine where you haven't imported your personal home
> directory template will end up showing these by-product files. Also,
> somebody newly entering the project will potentially have the files
> showing up and bothering them.
> 
> Anyway, I'm not necessarily advocating for re-adding the cscope files,
> but sending a patch seemed to be like the most useful way of
> discussing it.
> 
>   .gitignore | 6 ++++++
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
> index 6d44a50061..feb2bcb017 100644
> --- a/.gitignore
> +++ b/.gitignore
> @@ -8,6 +8,12 @@
>   .#*
>   *~
>   
> +# cscope related ignores
> +cscope.files
> +cscope.in.out
> +cscope.out
> +cscope.po.out
> +
>   # git related ignores
>   *.rej
>   *.orig
> 

Since this is not a technical question but a matter of preference, I 
won't put my ACK rather than +1. We already have vim/emacs files 
ignored, tags (marked as "libvirt related ignores" - wut?), /build/ 
(why, if I need to provide a builddir every time? and just so you know, 
I'm providing _build). If some of us use cscope we should add these files.

Michal