gitattributes: introduce and use "generated" attribute

I want to mark some files to be ignored for licensing purposes, e.g. output from fuzzers and other samples. By using the gitattribute machinery for this we don't need to design a custom protocol: $ git check-attr generated test/test-sysusers/unhappy-* test/test-sysusers/unhappy-1.expected-err: generated: set test/test-sysusers/unhappy-1.input: generated: unspecified test/test-sysusers/unhappy-2.expected-err: generated: set test/test-sysusers/unhappy-2.input: generated: unspecified test/test-sysusers/unhappy-3.expected-err: generated: set test/test-sysusers/unhappy-3.input: generated: unspecified
2021-10-18 09:42:55 +02:00
parent 546e57f51b
commit 1d9a1215e8
10 changed files with 19 additions and 4 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
 *.[ch] whitespace=tab-in-indent,trailing-space
-*.gpg  binary
+*.gpg  binary generated
 *.bmp  binary
+
+# Mark files as "generated", i.e. no license applies to them.
+# This includes output from programs, directive lists generated by grepping
+# for all possibilities, samples from fuzzers, files from /proc, packet samples,
+# and anything else where no copyright can be asserted.
+#
+# Use 'git check-attr generated -- <path>' to query the attribute.
+[attr]generated
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/LINGUAS  generated
@@ -1 +1 @@
-/*.bin binary
+/*.bin binary generated
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@
 /fuzz-fido-id-desc/ binary
 /fuzz-lldp-rx/*     binary
 /fuzz-ndisc-rs/*    binary
+/*/*                generated
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Journal data in export format
-/*.txt  binary
+/*.txt  binary generated
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+*  generated
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/conf/*.key  generated
@@ -1 +1 @@
-/*.pkts  binary
+/*.pkts  binary generated
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+/*.initial*   generated
+/*.expected*  generated
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+*  generated