bpo-37936: Avoid ignoring files that we actually do track. (GH-15451)

There were about 14 files that are actually in the repo but that are
covered by the rules in .gitignore.

Git itself takes no notice of what .gitignore says about files that
it's already tracking... but the discrepancy can be confusing to a
human that adds a new file unexpectedly covered by these rules, as
well as to non-Git software that looks at .gitignore but doesn't
implement this wrinkle in its semantics.  (E.g., `rg`.)

Several of these are from rules that apply more broadly than
intended: for example, `Makefile` applies to `Doc/Makefile` and
`Tools/freeze/test/Makefile`, whereas `/Makefile` means only the
`Makefile` at the repo's root.

And the `Modules/Setup` rule simply wasn't updated after 961d54c5c.

https://bugs.python.org/issue37936

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 9f3b1ac83b511dae353dabc8712f7de9bd906b4c..54c598e109e06b1a93e269ccbce9ee114865f7c2 100644 (file)
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -27,12 +27,12 @@ Include/pydtrace_probes.h
 Lib/distutils/command/*.pdb
 Lib/lib2to3/*.pickle
 Lib/test/data/*
-Makefile
+!Lib/test/data/README
+/Makefile
 Makefile.pre
 Misc/python.pc
 Misc/python-embed.pc
 Misc/python-config.sh
-Modules/Setup
 Modules/Setup.config
 Modules/Setup.local
 Modules/config.c
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ config.log
 config.status
 config.status.lineno
 core
+!Tools/msi/core/
 db_home
 .hg/
 .idea/
@@ -89,7 +90,7 @@ libpython*.dylib
 libpython*.dll
 platform
 pybuilddir.txt
-pyconfig.h
+/pyconfig.h
 python-config
 python-config.py
 python.bat

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-08-24-00-29-40.bpo-37936.QrORqA.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-08-24-00-29-40.bpo-37936.QrORqA.rst
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..4c64861
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2019-08-24-00-29-40.bpo-37936.QrORqA.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+The :file:`.gitignore` file no longer applies to any files that are in fact
+tracked in the Git repository.  Patch by Greg Price.