[PR PATCH] .gitignore: explicitly allow paths

[paper42 <paper42@users.noreply.github.com>]

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There is a new pull request by paper42 against master on the void-packages repository

https://github.com/paper42/void-packages new-gitignore
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/41383

.gitignore: explicitly allow paths
This prevents git from picking up masterdirs that don't happen to be named the usual way and more custom and temporary files that should not be tracked by git.

A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/41383.patch is attached

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From a7e06b28aeda4da71b089b9d6f10b8f2c42874ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michal Vasilek <michal@vasilek.cz>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2022 17:23:01 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] .gitignore: explicitly allow paths

This prevents git from picking up masterdirs that don't happen to be
named the usual way and more custom and temporary files that should not
be tracked by git.
---
 .gitignore | 18 +++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 958f644eee94..b250a982502a 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,14 +1,18 @@
 *.swo
 *.swp
 *~
-\#*#
-*.o
-masterdir*
-hostdir*
-masterdir*/
-hostdir*/
+
+# exclude everything in root except files and directories from void-packages
+/*
+!/srcpkgs
+!/common
+!/CONTRIBUTING.md
+!/Manual.md
+!/README.md
+!/COPYING
+!/xbps-src
+!/etc
 etc/conf
 etc/conf.*
 etc/virtual
 etc/xbps.d/custom
-.xbps-checkvers*.plist