[Feature Request]: Add lib/tools/common/__pycache__ to .gitignore

[ig3]

Which feature would you like to have?

Yesterday I updated my fork of armbian/build to current main branch and updated the clone on my build server: Ubuntu "22.04.3 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)" on a qemu virtual server. Then I created a branch for work on an image for a nanopi r2s plus which I have and for which eMMC and one network interface doesn't work with the nanopi r2s image - at least it didn't a few months ago, the last time I had time to work on it.

Today I made an image but after the image was made I checked my git status and found that there is an untracked file: lib/tools/common/__pycache__/. This is the only change. The directory contains one file: bash_declare_parser.cpython-310.pyc. It was last modified a few hours ago, so I don't know what command I ran created it, but it wasn't modified by the last image build.

I checked .gitignore in the project root and it has '/__pycache__/*', which doesn't match the folder in the sub-directory due to the leading slash.

So, maybe I am mistaken and lib/tools/common/__pycache__ should be committed to git, but it seems wrong to commit an __pycache__ directory to me. Or maybe I did something wrong that caused the directory to be created. This is entirely possible: I am not experienced with the build framework and I did have a couple of failed runs before I was able to build an image.

My thinking is that __pycache__/ or something similar should be added to .gitignore, to ignore __pycache__ in sub-directories, but I'm not certain as I am not very familiar with the build framework.

I tried to search for information bout __pycache__ related to the build framework. There are very few results and none that clarify this issue.

Funding

• I am willing to cover expenses

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Jira ticket: AR-2616