(XS) RFR: 8149427: Remove .class files from the hotspot repo .hgignore file

Mikael Vidstedt mikael.vidstedt at oracle.com
Tue Feb 9 07:04:40 UTC 2016


Looks good.It would of course be great to understand why it was added to 
start with, but even so I don't think it should be there (and we should 
instead fix whatever caused it to be added).

Cheers,
Mikael

On 2016-02-08 21:48, David Holmes wrote:
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8149427
>
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/8149427/webrev/
>
> JDK-6900757 added the following to .hgignore:
>
> +\.class$
>
> but it is unclear why this was done. This setting can cause problems 
> when jtreg testing leaves class files in unexpected places, and -stree 
> JPRT submissions then fail testing in strange ways. "hg status" 
> doesn't show these errant files because of the entry in .hgignore.
>
> I propose to remove the entry from the .hgignore file.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>
> patch:
>
> --- old/./.hgignore    2016-02-09 00:43:28.786882859 -0500
> +++ new/./.hgignore    2016-02-09 00:43:27.254796576 -0500
> @@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
>  .igv.log
>  ^.hgtip
>  .DS_Store
> -\.class$
>  ^\.mx.jvmci/env
>  ^\.mx.jvmci/.*\.pyc
>  ^\.mx.jvmci/eclipse-launches/.*
>
> ---
>



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