Remove the 'build' directory by default #4331
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Most OSS projects that use cmake let the user or a script create
the directory instead of it being pre-created.
While it might seems just like a convenience here, if you actually
remove the directory (to make a new build) and later commit with
git commit -a
, the removal ofbuild/.gitkeep
will be added tothe commit.
.gitignore does not help here as it only prevents untracked files
from being added - changes in existing tracked files are still
registered.
While there are other local-only workarounds like
git update-index --skip-worktree build/.gitkeep
a cleaner solution is removing the default build dir altogether.