https://github.com/mrexodia updated 
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/170003

>From fcaec12dc6f2b6be02ed80d3dfea1574a7a852e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Duncan Ogilvie <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2025 17:07:37 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add .gitignore file in .cache/clangd/index

---
 .../clangd/index/BackgroundIndexStorage.cpp              | 9 +++++++++
 clang-tools-extra/clangd/test/background-index.test      | 4 ++++
 clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst                  | 2 ++
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/clangd/index/BackgroundIndexStorage.cpp 
b/clang-tools-extra/clangd/index/BackgroundIndexStorage.cpp
index d887b09482a95..470be79590863 100644
--- a/clang-tools-extra/clangd/index/BackgroundIndexStorage.cpp
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/clangd/index/BackgroundIndexStorage.cpp
@@ -45,7 +45,16 @@ class DiskBackedIndexStorage : public BackgroundIndexStorage 
{
     if (EC != OK) {
       elog("Failed to create directory {0} for index storage: {1}",
            DiskShardRoot, EC.message());
+      return;
     }
+    // Create a .gitignore file in the directory to ignore all files.
+    llvm::SmallString<128> GitignorePath(DiskShardRoot);
+    llvm::sys::path::append(GitignorePath, ".gitignore");
+    auto Error = llvm::writeToOutput(GitignorePath, [](llvm::raw_ostream &OS) {
+      OS << "# This file is autogenerated by clangd.\n*\n";
+      return llvm::Error::success();
+    });
+    llvm::consumeError(std::move(Error));
   }
 
   std::unique_ptr<IndexFileIn>
diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/clangd/test/background-index.test 
b/clang-tools-extra/clangd/test/background-index.test
index 1983f0957dccf..b42cd8e648437 100644
--- a/clang-tools-extra/clangd/test/background-index.test
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/clangd/test/background-index.test
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@
 # RUN: ls %/t/.cache/clangd/index/foo.cpp.*.idx
 # RUN: ls %/t/sub_dir/.cache/clangd/index/foo.h.*.idx
 
+# Test that the the newly created index directories also have a .gitignore 
file present.
+# RUN: ls %/t/.cache/clangd/index/.gitignore
+# RUN: ls %/t/sub_dir/.cache/clangd/index/.gitignore
+
 # Test the index is read from disk: delete code and restart clangd.
 # RUN: rm %/t/foo.cpp
 # RUN: clangd -background-index -lit-test < %/t/definition.jsonrpc | FileCheck 
%/t/definition.jsonrpc --check-prefixes=CHECK,USE
diff --git a/clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst 
b/clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
index 42f35daa942e7..b4358da700e35 100644
--- a/clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
+++ b/clang-tools-extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
@@ -130,6 +130,8 @@ Objective-C
 Miscellaneous
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
+- Add wildcard ``.gitignore`` file to the clangd index directory.
+
 Improvements to clang-doc
 -------------------------
 

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