On Sun, Jul 31, 2022 at 3:39 AM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > * A .gitignore file is needed so that "git status" won't whine after > running the test. This tends to be pretty much boilerplate; I copied > it from another contrib directory.
Is there any reason we don't add a .gitignore in the contrib/ directory to ignore all */log/, */results/ and */tmp_check/ by default rather having at least /log/, /results/ and /tmp_check/ in almost all subdirectories .gitignore? Sure any underlying "(log|results|tmp_check)" top-directory will then be ignored even if it's not supposed to be needed, but I don't think it would matter in practice. And if it does matter you could still force some file to be included or even override the parent gitignore.
