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

[Axel Spoerl]

Thanks @Christian Ehrlicher<mailto:ch.ehrlicher at gmx.de> for spotting!
- .gitingore files in submodules' root dir seem to be maintained and up to date (checked qtbase and qtdeclarative)
- IMHO they can be removed with a mass-commit
- IMHO a rule should be added to Sanity Bot to react to new .gitignore files with a -1

Cheers
Axel


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To: Christian Ehrlicher <Ch.Ehrlicher at gmx.de>; development at qt-project.org <development at qt-project.org>
Subject: Re: [Development] Massive amount of useless(?) .gitignore files in qtbase/tests

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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