[Development] Massive amount of useless(?) .gitignore files in qtbase/tests

[Jörg Bornemann]

On 5/11/26 8:00 PM, Christian Ehrlicher via Development wrote:

> There is a .gitignore file in nearly every subdirectoy of qtbase/tests/ 
> auto - they were added in qt4 times afaics. Do we still need them? We 
> don't support in-source builds anymore so from my pov they are pretty 
> useless and just slow down git.

As much as I'd like it to be different, but we still support in-source 
builds of Qt.

Note: this is not a veto against removing those .gitignore files. Good 
riddance!


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