On Monday, April 29, 2019 4:45:06 PM CEST Masahiro Yamada wrote: > tools/power/acpi/.gitignore has the following entries: > > acpidbg > acpidump > ec > > They are intended to ignore the following build artifacts: > > tools/power/acpi/acpidbg > tools/power/acpi/acpidump > tools/power/acpi/ec > > However, those .gitignore entries are effective not only for the > current directory, but also for any sub-directories. > > So, the following directories are also considered to be ignored: > > tools/power/acpi/tools/acpidbg > tools/power/acpi/tools/acpidump > tools/power/acpi/tools/ec > > They are obviously version-controlled, so should be excluded from the > .gitignore patterns. > > You can fix it by prefixing the patterns with '/', which means they > are only effective in the current directory. > > I also prefixed the "include" consistently. IMHO, '/' prefixing is > safer when you intend to ignore specific files or directories. > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > tools/power/acpi/.gitignore | 8 ++++---- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/tools/power/acpi/.gitignore b/tools/power/acpi/.gitignore > index cba3d99..f698a0e 100644 > --- a/tools/power/acpi/.gitignore > +++ b/tools/power/acpi/.gitignore > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ > -acpidbg > -acpidump > -ec > -include > +/acpidbg > +/acpidump > +/ec > +/include/ > Applied, thanks!