Merge #74771

74771: build: put regular file at bazel-out by default r=dt a=dt Release note: none. Co-authored-by: David Taylor <[email protected]>
cockroachdb · Jan 13, 2022 · 61a1b93 · 61a1b93
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diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ zcgo_flags*.go
 build/Railroad.jar
 
 # Bazel generated symlinks
-/bazel-*
 /_bazel
 
 # Per-user .bazelrc

diff --git a/bazel-out b/bazel-out
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+This placeholder file prevents bazel from writing a symlink here which points to its output dir.
+That symlink often causes tools that traverse the repo to get confused when they find lots of extra go files.
+The _bazel/out symlink points to the same thing, but go doesn't traverse into paths that start with _.