On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> On 2/22/15 5:41 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
>>> You could argue that these .gitignore files don't actually belong there,
>>> but your patch doesn't change or move those files, and even modules that
>>> have non-empty sql/ or expected/ directories have .gitignore files
>>> there, so it is considered the appropriate location.
>>
>> This is up to the maintainer of each extension to manage their code
>> tree. However I can imagine that some people would be grateful if we
>> allow them to not need sql/ and expected/ containing only one single
>> .gitignore file ignoring everything with "*", making the code tree of
>> their extensions cleaner.
>
> I would like to have an extension in tree that also does this, so we
> have a regression test of this functionality.
Sure. Here is one in the patch attached added as a test module. The
name of the module is regress_dynamic. Perhaps the name could be
better..
--
Michael